Father Courage by Beth Saulnier
Cornell Aliumni Magazine, 01/2008

As a Cornell junior, Ken Kunken ’72 was paralyzed by a football injury and given little hope for a full life. Today, he’s a Long Island D.A. with four academic degrees, a happy marriage – and three-year-old triplets.
The Kunken boys have turned their living room into a combination obstacle course and trampoline. Having taken the cushions off the sectional sofa to form a padded square, the tow-headed triplets are running and hopping and somersaulting in a manic loop. A few months shy of three years old, the brothers are a force of nature as they race around the room – falling, laughing, and picking themselves up again. Their father looks on, wearing a smile so wide it borders on the comical. Ken Kunken ’72 is sitting in a motorized wheelchair, almost completely paralyzed from the neck down for the past thirty-seven years, and he is deliriously happy. /full article/