The National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Crested Butte in the Colorado Rockies treats war veterans from battles as far back as World War II and as recent as Bosnia. The program was founded by Sandy Trombetta, chief of recreation therapy at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Grand Junction. Trombetta got the idea for the clinic in 1982 when he was trying to treat a bedridden veteran, and he says that he discovered that skiing could be a bridge to a better life for people with disabilities