By Scott Dixon, Public Affairs Specialist
IOWA CITY, Iowa - The pride Bob Morin has for his son is written all over his face as he shows off Dale’s white jumper displaying the Morin name across the back. Dale volunteers to be his father’s golf buddy at the National Disabled Veterans Golf Clinic as a way to spend a little more time together.
Bob, a retired Army Veteran, is fully blind and lives on his own in Topeka, Kansas. He lives in a cul de sac and has some helpful neighbors who check in on him. He also gets a lot of help from his local VA Medical Center.
“They treat me like a king,” Bob says as he lists off the services they’ve provided, from the pharmacists who help him keep track of his medications to the tools they provide to give him back his independence.
Bob is especially proud of his color detecting device that helps him pick out his outfits, saying, “When I go out, everyone is very impressed with how good I look!”
But at the golf clinic, it’s Bob’s son Dale’s outfit that’s the talk of the course. Each day at the clinic, Dale dons his bright white caddy uniform as if he’s supporting a pro at the Masters, rather than assisting his father in Iowa.
As Bob wraps up his second year at the NDGVC, he calls his whole team into a huddle and gives them a goodbye speech, “thank you all for a great time, and thank you all for a great game!”
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