In 2001 JM
was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in
recognition of his services to disabled wintersports.
He refused to allow me to reproduce the letter from the
Governor General but John was amused at the irony of the timing of the
award as he himself was disabled for some months following a snow
skiing incident.
John is gradually progressing to full
qualification for a disability pension after a recent (2005) brush with
a kamikaze driver who pursued John into a head-on collision, despite
John's evasive efforts. (Accident-prone or what?)
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