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[Rik James]

Weaving through all of that is tiresome.
If the Times want to sue me, they can.
Here is marc's letter below.
I was glad to see his letter.
I just re-read the Hoagland piece yesterday.
Thanks, Joy for alerting me to our national president's letter.
I don't yet know which edition it is in our Newsline edition of the paper.
But here is how I found it. I put Riccobono and Hoagland in the Search
field, and the New York Times came up quickly.

I hope there will be more letters!
Rik

November 29, 2016 
Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Re "Feeling My Way Into Blindness" (Disability series, Sunday Review, Nov.
20):

My heart went out to Edward Hoagland when I read his essay. I remember that
I once let blindness make me a passenger in my own life. That changed when I
encountered a vast network of other blind people who convinced me that
blindness did not define me, who taught me nonvisual ways to handle everyday
and not-so-everyday tasks, and encouraged me to expect more of myself.

Without that experience, I might still live in fear of hurting myself or
breaking things when I walk down the sidewalk, and I might regularly
mismatch my shoes and socks.

I am now a successful blind man married to a blind woman, living a rich,
full life with her and our three children, and serving as president of the
National Federation of the Blind, a membership organization of tens of
thousands of blind people.

So my next correspondence will be to Mr. Hoagland, to offer him the love and
support from an extended blind family that changed my life and can change
his.

MARK RICCOBONO

Baltimore


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If you go to www.nfb.org and click on the link under "what's new", you will
find President Riccobono Responds to The New York Times Essay on Blindness.
Click on that link and it will take you to the responses in the New York
Times.

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Joy,
	Question?  Do we have to go to the N Y Times to see this?
Ted

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Read President Riccobono's response to an essay by blind author Edward
Hoagland in The New York Times. The President and others responded with
compassion

and hope to Mr. Hoagland's despairing assessment of his condition, affirming
the ability of all blind people to live the lives we want.



Joy Breslauer, President

National Federation of the Blind of Montana

Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/>



Live the life you want



The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back.



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