This chapter seeks to make sense of how people in interwar Romania understood disability. The research centers on the voices of disabled men as they narrate their experiences of growing up in rural settings. It examines the disparity between political ideals, legal frameworks, and everyday realities, particularly in the aftermath of the Great War. The chapter introduces Romania into broader global historiographical debates on disability, exploring how rural communities reintegrated wounded veterans—viewed by the state both as “heroes of the nation” and as bearers of citizenship. Drawing on anthropological insights, it also investigates how physical difference was understood within village life, often in ways that complemented—or diverged from—official state narratives.