Providence Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach
Veterans walk onto the field at Gillette Stadium just like the players, at the start of the football skills clinic sponsored by CVS Caremark to honor local veterans Saturday in Foxboro. View the photo gallery.
FOXBORO, Mass. -- Former New England Patriots tight end Jermaine Wiggins was talking football on Saturday, but he might have been referring to life in general.
"You get to the end zone however you get there," he coached a group of men at a football skills camp at Gillette Stadium.
Some ran. Some walked. Others used their hands to pump the wheels of their wheelchairs.
And still others nudged the joystick forward on motorized chairs.
These football students all had two things in common:
They had served their country in the military, and they are disabled to one degree or another.
The skills camp honored nearly 50 disabled veterans from across New England.