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Lewis Reynolds served for 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, during which he fought in the Korean and Vietnam wars, trained FBI agents in firearms and worked as military police.
Reynolds became an electrician, and was certified in the trade after leaving the service for work in the private sector, where he eventually ran his own business.
He’s 86, and he still works. The living room of his home is decorated with pictures of his late wife, Delores, who died six years ago after 47 years of marriage.
When he was an adolescent, the state government labeled him a defective who should not be able to pass on his genes, so they held him from his family for four years and sterilized him against his will and knowledge.
“I thought it was terrible, cause I couldn’t have a family,” Reynolds said recently, after explaining that he didn’t learn of his operation until years later as a Marine. The operation led to the breakup of his first marriage.
Reynolds and thousands of other Virginians lived on childless as victims of...
Reynolds became an electrician, and was certified in the trade after leaving the service for work in the private sector, where he eventually ran his own business.
He’s 86, and he still works. The living room of his home is decorated with pictures of his late wife, Delores, who died six years ago after 47 years of marriage.
When he was an adolescent, the state government labeled him a defective who should not be able to pass on his genes, so they held him from his family for four years and sterilized him against his will and knowledge.
“I thought it was terrible, cause I couldn’t have a family,” Reynolds said recently, after explaining that he didn’t learn of his operation until years later as a Marine. The operation led to the breakup of his first marriage.
Reynolds and thousands of other Virginians lived on childless as victims of...