[NFBMT] Happy Fourth of July!

[Bruce&Joy Breslauer]

Happy Fourth of July, everybody.

 

I can't believe I'll be winging my way to Orlando next Sunday, at six in the
morning.  I'll get there almost twelve hours later, at 5:30 in the evening,
their time.  

 

I hope you all get a chance to contemplate how blessed we are, what a great
country we live in, and how we got here with some major missteps along the
way.  I can't imagine that I as a blind person could live the life I am
living now in another country.  There isn't a day that goes by that I don't
thank God for His blessings to me and mine.  At the same time, I am mindful
that many others, who may not be as fortunate, are still blessed by the same
God and live in freedom hard won by our brave soldiers and veterans, some of
whom didn't make it home.  

 

I saw on the news recently that some of us apparently don't know our history
very well.  I don't remember the percentages, or whether it was students or
adults, but a fairly high percentage of us didn't know what country we broke
away from to become the United States, and what year the 13 colonies fought
the War of Independence. 

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-mccullough-history-dangerous-times/  

 

There is a quote attributed to Ben Franklin which I remember from high
school.  As he was leaving the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a lady
asked him, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"  He
replied, "a republic, if you can keep it."  I hope we can.

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-7XWhyvIpE

 

By the way, The July Braille Monitor is out.

 

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.