[Nfbmo] Fw: [Blindad] Happy Birthday Louis Braille:

[Fred Olver]

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From: "Angel" <angel238 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <blindad at babel-fish.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 11:38 PM
Subject: [Blindad] Happy Birthday Louis Braille:


> As you all know already, this is the 204th birthday of one of the few 
> great and marvelous men who forged ahead despite myriad obstacles to make 
> our way as blind individuals as easy as it is today.  we must not forget 
> those who helped through low technological solutions to make this 
> possible;   in this world of high technology and the wonders it brings for 
> us to strike out to fulfill our most treasured dreams on an equal footing 
> with our sighted peers.  Mr. Braille, along with his contemporaries such 
> as Dr. William Moon, understood, as only we blind can, the true needs of 
> us blind, and proceeded to meet them, as only we blind can.  On this day, 
> we must never forget if it weren't for us testing, and communicating with 
> those sighted programmers and others who create the technology which makes 
> it possible for us to do what we do so successfully; there would be no 
> assistive technology as good as it is.  It has been proven time and time 
> again without us blind pointing the way toward success those sighted 
> persons attempting too assist us to fulfill our dreams can only fall short 
> of excellence.  So, let us raise a glass to our fellow forward thinker Mr. 
> Louis Braille.  Who would surely be celebrating with us the strides we 
> have made in the 188 years since the invention of his marvelous code. 
> Which has done more than anything else to take us blind out of the 
> darkness in which most of us were trapped; and in which we well might 
> still find ourselves.  If not for him and Dr. Moon and others of his day.
> If the gates are all down, and the signal is flashing, and the whistle is 
> screaming in vain.  If you stand on the tracks, ignoring the facts, you 
> can't blame the wreck on the train.
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