[Blindtlk] Fwd: Four blind men elected to serve their community all at the same time

[David Andrews]

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>From: "Peggy Chong" <peggychong at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Four blind men elected to serve their community all at the same time
>Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 13:37:23 -0700
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>I just recently ran across a news article from Silver Bow County 
>Montana  from November of 1921.  The article highlighted the 
>election that had just passed and the four blind judges now on the 
>bench in that county.  One was new but three were returned to 
>office.  How remarkable that in one county, the electorate placed 
>their trust in four blind men, all at the same time?  It is hard to 
>conceive that happening today in any county or state of the U. S..
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>A more in-depth look at these four men, how they got to where they 
>were and welcomed to serve the citizens of Silver Bow MT,  the blind 
>other men of their community they mentored and what became of their 
>mentee's may appear in a future issue of Dialogue Magazine, 
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