[Blindtlk] FW: Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer

[Steve P. Deeley]

you need to lighten up.
Steve
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From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer


>A small step forward for the military, but a big step back for the
> image of blind people in my opinion. They talk about how devastating
> losing his sight was, how he wanted to die, that his life was black
> literally and figuratively, and how he broke down crying because his
> life was so horribly changed.
>
> Captain Smiley tries to push that his life is normal. He makes light
> of his wanting to have fun (surfing, mountain climbing, parachuting),
> but the Fox announcer seems so shocked and awed that a blind person
> could do such things.
>
> Good for Captain Smiley. I'm sure he'll go far and represent people
> with visual impairment well, but this video certaionly doesn't.
>
> My two cents,
>
> On 9/23/10, Hyde, David W. (ESC) <david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us> wrote:
>>  I think this represents a small step forward by the military. They at 
>> least
>> didn't give him a discharge and a thank you..
>>
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/21915181
>>
>>
>>
>>
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