In honor of the #ADA 25th anniversary this year & #NDEAM here is the story of Virginia Hall http://1.usa.gov/1L2wUHw pic.twitter.com/Pe1uF352Q4
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While in Turkey Virginia Hall was involved in a serious hunting accident & lost her left leg below the knee.
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Fitted with a wooden leg, Hall asked to take the Foreign Service oral exam, but was told the loss of her leg was cause for rejection.
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Sent back to France, Hall organized agent networks & assisted escaped POWs while Gestapo desperately searched for “The Limping Lady.”
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1942: Germans seized all of France & Hall barely escaped to Spain by walking across the snow-covered Pyrenees.
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For her courage & ingenuity Hall was only civilian woman during #WWII awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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At CIA Hall used her covert action expertise in a range of activities & in support of resistance groups in Iron Curtain countries.
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She was one of a handful of relatively senior women in the clandestine service until her mandatory retirement in 1966 at age 60.
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We are proud of our officers with disabilities & continue to strive to make CIA an employer of choice for people with disabilities.
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