内容摘要：Konyak Naga women carry baskets filled with firewood at Longwa village, on the India-Myanmar border in the northeastern India state of Nagaland, Thursday, Dec.12, 2024. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)

Konyak Naga women carry baskets filled with firewood at Longwa village, on the India-Myanmar border in the northeastern India state of Nagaland, Thursday, Dec.12, 2024. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)

Serhii Pozniak, a sniper unit commander with the 27th national guard brigade, speaks to soldiers during military training near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)“Fighting with arms and legs is something anyone can do. Fighting without them — that’s a challenge,” he says. “But only those who take on challenges and fight through them are truly alive.”

Many Ukrainian brigades have at least one, and often several, amputee soldiers still on active duty — men whoout of a sense of dutyA sticker of a wheelchair-bound soldier holding a rifle is seen on the windshield of Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in combat, during a drive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A sticker of a wheelchair-bound soldier holding a rifle is seen on the windshield of Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in combat, during a drive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who lost his right arm in battle, drives a car in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who lost his right arm in battle, drives a car in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

They are among Ukraine’s 380,000 war wounded, according toHis death was confirmed by his son, David Gans, who said he died at his Manhattan home after a lengthy illness.

Author of such influential works as “The Urban Villagers” and “The Levittowners,” Herbert Gans was a refugee fromwho liked to say he viewed his adopted country through the eyes of an outsider. He called himself a “participant-observer,” combining research and direct experience and lending crucial perspective on municipal planning, attitudes toward race and poverty, mass communication and cultural tastes.

A professor emeritus at Columbia University and former president of thehe believed in making scholarly work accessible, and was a popular commentator and prolific essay writer. He served on the committee that prepared the