[Nfbk] Fwd: Program Saturday

[Cathy Jackson]

Good Evening,
I know this is last minute, but APH is presenting a Veteran's Day program. I was asked to pass along the info.
Cathy 

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> From: Katie Carpenter <kcarpenter at aph.org>
> Date: November 9, 2018 at 2:24:09 PM EST
> To: "cathyj1949 at gmail.com" <cathyj1949 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Program Saturday
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> Hi Cathy,
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> I’m asking a favor.  We have a program at the museum tomorrow for Veteran’s Day, and I’m trying to build an audience. Could you maybe pass this along to NFB’ers who might be interested (or who might be veterans)?  It’s going to be a really good program, and I hate that people who are interested might miss it.
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> Here’s the info:
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> Reclaiming the Dream: The Story of Rehabilitation for Blinded Veterans honors the thousands of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who returned home from their service in World War I with damaged vision.  Unlike later generations of wounded vets, the young men who returned from “the war to end all wars” encountered a system unprepared for the nature of their wounds and uncertain about the role of the nation in rehabilitating a blinded veteran. Today, people who are blind travel with ease to schools restaurants, offices—and wherever else their lives may take them.  But it was not always so.  It took the commitment of the nation and the perseverance of the veterans themselves to create lasting change. 
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> Two special guests will tell the story. Dr. Thomas Zampiere lost his sight to a degenerative eye disease seventeen years ago. He is currently the vice-president of the National Blinded Veterans Association, where he advocates for veterans and their medical needs, especially those suffering eye traumas. He will describe the medical treatment available for WWI doughboys and swabbies blinded in the war and the birth of modern rehabilitation in field hospitals behind the lines and in the Evergreen Army Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rob Mazzoli, a military trauma ophthalmologist and military historian, will compare the treatment of blinded veterans in World War I to those who were blinded in World War II and also to what is being done today for veterans blinded in conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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> As World War I sparked the dog guide movement, the program also features a modern guide dog team and explains the origins of the practice of using dogs as guides in German hospitals for wounded soldiers.
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> Thanks so much.
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> Katie Fraser Carpenter
> Museum Educator
> 502.899.2213
> 1839 Frankfort Avenue • Louisville, KY 40206
> aph.org/museum • info at aph.org
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