Marginalia
July, 2006
From Comments by Karen Mazurkiewicz, a spokesperson for the western New York district of the U.S. Postal Service, responding to a Buffalo News reporter who was trying to determine why National Guard sergeant Jason Lyon, deemed combat-ready after recovering from a 2004 ankle injury sustained in Iraq, was turned down for a mail carrier job on the grounds that he had a physical impairment: "We have a rich history of hiring veterans, but we have to look at each candidate and make an assessment...
