Winter Special Olympics

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CITY22 USA Winter Special Olympics 25 1985 84060 PARK

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WINTER SPECIAL OLYMPICS First Day of Issue: March 25, 1985 First Issue Location: Park City, Utah Almost one in seven people has some sort of physical or mental disability. However, just because a person is handicapped doesn't mean they cannot accomplish great things. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt was crippled by polio but became President of the United States. But despite their many accomplishments, one area in which the handicapped were for many years virtually shut out was sports. That changed in 1968 with the advent of the Special Olympics — when a national meet for one thousand athletes was held. From those small beginnings the Special Olympics has grown to the point that today, more than one million mentally handicapped children and adults around the world, participate in the year- round program of recreation and sports. In the Special Olympics the emphasis is on competing and completing a task — not on winning. For in the Special Olympics there truly are no losers. In honor of the Winter Special Olympics, the U.S. Postal Service issued the distinctive No. 85-19 ©1985 The Maximum Card Collection A Division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 Original painting by Jim Butcher.