[NFBF-Melbourne] FW: [NFBF-Leaders] Celebration of Freedom Veteran Call

Camille Tate ctate2076 at att.net
Fri Apr 30 13:13:59 UTC 2021


I think it would be great for our veterans within our chapter to participate. Each year at both conventions, we have a program to recognize and celebrate our blinded veterans. Let me know if you need help to participate. 

 

Camille 

 

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Subject: [NFBF-Leaders] Celebration of Freedom Veteran Call

 

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From: David Andrews via
Date: April 30, 2021 at 12:36:45 AM EDT





Greetings Federation Family, 

I hope you are all looking forward to our annual convention, I know I am!  As the President of the National Association of Blind Veterans I am once again honored with organizing the Celebration of Freedom.  A point in the program where we take a few moments to honor all of our veterans.  This year we would like as many veterans to participate as possible.  We hope to receive an audio recording of each of them introducing themselves and giving us a short glimpse of their service.  I hope all affiliate and division leaders can spread the word and assist veterans who might have difficulty in creating an audio recording.  What we need No Later Than June 6 th is a ten second recording of them providing the following information.  

Name 

Rank 

Service 

Retirement status or years of service 

Where they served (if they think it appropriate) 

Location where they are now 

And anything they want to say (just keep it under ten seconds) 

Please include a transcript in your email so we can include it in the closed-captioned portion of the program. 

For example, mine would be something like 

Vernon Humphrey President of the NABV, Master Sergeant US Army retired, I served in various medical facilities and humanitarian aid missions. Columbus, Georgia. 

We have noticed that we have some veterans who have served in other countries, we hope to include them in this program too.  Please pass this on to the Veterans in your affiliates and divisions.  

Email all audio clips along with a transcript to: mr_president at nabv.org <mailto:mr_president at nabv.org>  


Cordially, 

Vern 

Vernon F. Humphrey PhD 
MSG, US Army (R) 
President National Association of Blind Veterans 

“Each of us is in essence like a rubber band ball. Culture is developed as if adding one rubber band after another. Some rubber bands are wide and comforting; some are thin, tight and painful, with a variety of sizes in-between adding to the construction. Each new rubber band changes the mass, density and dimension of the ball and how it will react to outside stimuli, just as the layers of culture change how we as humans react to situations.” 

 

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