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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am glad to hear that some of us are going to the state convention and sad to hear that some others are not.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am not saying this to chide anyone who has already posted, but I’d like to request as moderator that we refrain from sending messages to the list just to tell others whether we are or are not going to be at convention. If people end up
getting literally 100 messages this month over our list that just announce an RSVP for state convention, that’s not really going to help us use this list.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Particularly, if I am a new member somewhere and I see that a lot of people are not going to be at an event for that organization, I am going to be a lot less likely to go myself, and we don’t want that. We want every incentive possible
for people to come!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good night,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Justin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Justin Salisbury, NOMC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graduate Student<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Louisiana Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu">
President@Alumni.ECU.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Twitter: @SalisburyJustin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Because I was not a Socialist. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Because I was not a Trade Unionist. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Because I was not a Jew. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Martin Niemöller<o:p></o:p></p>
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