[nabs-l] Blind ambition: U.S. Army'sonlyblindSpecialForcesofficer set to inspire atHuntingtonISD'sVeterans Day event

[Diane]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darian Smith" <dsmithnfb at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Blind ambition: U.S. 
Army'sonlyblindSpecialForcesofficer set to inspire atHuntingtonISD'sVeterans 
Day event


> Antonio and list,
>
>  I tend to look at articles and for the nost part not  put too much
> energy in what it says about the blind, because I find it's (depending
> on the situation)a better use of my time to live what we say the blind
> can do as opposed to talking about it.
>  There's a phrase that i basically live  by: " " don't speak about
> it, be about it".
>  respectfully,
>  Darian
>
> On 11/24/09, Kevin Wassmer <commanderlumpy2003 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> It sounds interesting.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Dunphy" <djdrocks4ever at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Blind ambition: U.S. Army's
>> onlyblindSpecialForcesofficer set to inspire at HuntingtonISD'sVeterans 
>> Day
>> event
>>
>>
>>>I don't think this was anything like the first story. That story was
>>>pointing out how amazing it was that a 14-year-old blind kid is for
>>>socializing with his peers, and while that may be a unique experience for
>>>some, we're not this amazing group of people cause we can socialize.
>>> In the army story, you can't assume any bias on the writer's part or 
>>> that
>>> people may or may not have felt bad for the soldier for the injuries he
>>> faced. That story did mention the soldier's blindness, but didn't focus
>>> exclusively on it, just on what he was doing with his life. That 
>>> football
>>> article was so focused on how incredible that kid was for socializing 
>>> and
>>> playing games with his peers, and that writer made it so obvious he 
>>> didn't
>>>
>>> think it was possible for blind people to do that it was unbelievable. 
>>> The
>>>
>>> army article was much more of a human interest story than the blind
>>> football player article. But you know, everyone interprets these things
>>> differently, and I wouldn't get too bothered if people thought one was
>>> better than the other. Agree to disagree if you think someone's got it
>>> wrong, and move on.
>>>>From David
>>>
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>
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> recruitment campaign to help attract energetic and passionate
> individuals into the field of blindness education, and we need your
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>
> "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny
> calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching
> before us;
> if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our
> slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe
> past and future generations,
> then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with
> you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be
> done, and
> usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth."- Baraq Obama
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