[Nfb-or] guide and reader

[T. Joseph Carter]

Actually, it doesn't say anything at all.  I've seen some finely 
skilled people come out of the VA's programs.  I've also seen some 
people who needed a sighted guide to move five feet from one table to 
the next at an exhibit hall.

The latter was a BVA officer, and didn't have much use for the NFB.  
I didn't tell him that if hat's how he wanted to spend the remainder 
of his life, we didn't have much use for him either.  I sure did 
think it, though.

We don't have a choice to be blind.  We do have a choice regarding 
how we live our lives given blindness.  I'll do my best to give a 
person the information needed to make the choice they have, but once 
they've made it I'm not going to lose sleep over them making what I 
consider to be the foolish choice.

Joseph


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:50:59PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
>Sure says a lot about the blindness skills training offered by the V A! NOT!
>
>mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jerry Hathaway" <jerry.hathaway2 at verizon.net>
>To: <Undisclosed-Recipientccbb>
>Date: Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 16:42:33
>Subject: [Nfb-or] guide and reader
>
>>
>>
>> I was contacted by Chanel Lachapeea from Travel of Portland who is looking for somebody to help with guide and reader for a blind vet who is coming from Washington DC to the VA Symposium in Portland on February 23-25. Please let me know if we can find somebody to help her with this request.
>>
>> Jerry Hathaway, President
>> NFBO Rose City Chapter
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