[nfbmi-talk] death notices

Sat Feb 4 15:05:52 UTC 2012

Thank you Marcus and all....

Thank you...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus Simmons" <MarcusSimmons at comcast.net>
To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] death notices

> Joe,
> You have my sincere condolences.
> Changing what it means to be blind,
> Marcus Simmons, vice-president,
> Western-Wayne chapter
> 28179 Brentwood
> Southfield, MI 48076-3069
> Marcus.Simmons at interbizusa.com
> (248) 552-8928
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 10:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] death notices
>
>
>> Thank you Terri...
>>
>> One who was lost was named Marshal. He was a valient black man and a 
>> personal care attendent to another beloved who was a peace and civil 
>> rights warrior named Buddy. Bare with me please. Buddy used a motorized 
>> wheelchair and was hardly communicative to most of us, but led me through 
>> one, if not my first, n of my first ADAPT actions with Marshall his PCA 
>> at his side.
>>
>> I still feel the sprays of Marshall's water bottle spritzing me and Buddy 
>> on a hot summer day fighting against the institutionalization of people 
>> with disabilities on an action in the hot streets of our nation's 
>> capitol. Did I mention that Buddy fought long and hard as a person with 
>> CP and other disabilities to fight his way out of an enforced nursing 
>> home and into a community and integrated environment with his wife at the 
>> time also a refugee from a nursing home? Yup, he with all of his 
>> disabilities fought for decades and I mean literally decades to be out of 
>> confinement not to his body and not to his wheelchair but to the social 
>> order and the slavery of his existence to lead as normal a life as 
>> possable to him through the ages, which is to say he fought to be 
>> bethroathed, and to live with his own woman of his own and religious vows 
>> and damned the dreaded nursing home and its rules! And I was sholder to 
>> sholder with Buddy and his PCA Marshal at the AARP when we barricaded 
>> that building in DC to make sure they knew these were rights for all 
>> including him, me and us? And Marshall, his PCA was again at his side 
>> back then and at that time relatively fleet of foot...He sure could see a 
>> whole lot better than either Buddy or I at the time...lol..
>>
>> Did I mention that Marshal who just past away went from being a personal 
>> care attendant to an amputee to a wheelchair user and then died of renal 
>> failure do to diabetes? And that Marshal was a lion a distinct lion for 
>> all people with disabilities and a true loved one? Actually before 
>> Marshal died he saw sadly the relative demise of Liberty Resorces the 
>> largest CIL in Philly and was a board member as those funds are being now 
>> squanderrred and divided and put out to pasture while Rome, the American 
>> Rome burns?
>>
>> I'm so sorry this all breaks my heart so much and I can't write through 
>> the tears....
>>
>> These are only but a few of my personal losses over the past few months, 
>> but they are losses to all of us too.
>>
>> Oh, and to learn that Laura Williams was lost to all of us being the fine 
>> leader and dear friend with Californians for Disability Rights...
>>
>> Oh my Lord I just can't stand it...I'm sorry ... I'm sad... I'm 
>> frustrated I'm grieving.
>>
>> This doesn't even count the losses of those aged and folks like my 
>> beloved Diane who have passed in the last few months.
>>
>> I'm sorry I'm just in shock and utterly stunned at the fact that one 
>> after another countless are dying before me and those across the nation 
>> that touched me in so many ways, some most intimately and my grief is 
>> large and it is immense and I bare it with all of my heart and soul....
>>
>> I'm aggrieved!
>>
>> And I see the beasts who don't give a rat's ass about our rights let 
>> alone our likes and our right to live in this world as humans like say 
>> Cannon and his masters suck at the trough while I cannot even 
>> appropriately reeve and it makes me more than ticked off, in righteous 
>> rage at the injustice of it all...
>>
>> I'm not particularly religious though I know you are and I appreciate and 
>> respect those like you...
>>
>> But here is my crying tear of remembrance to the fallen loved ones with 
>> disabilities who have passed in my life recently...
>>
>> I loved and love you Diane....
>>
>> I loved and loved you Buddy...
>>
>> I loved and love you Marshall...
>>
>> I loved and love you Laura...
>>
>>
>> I hope in the next world you will find justice and peace.
>>
>>
>> I'm sad that you did not in this world, but will fight for social justice 
>> until my last dying breath on your behalf and with you and others in my 
>> mind.
>> Love to All,
>>
>> Peace with justice to one and all.
>>
>> Joe
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "trising" <trising at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] death notices
>>
>>
>>> Joe, I am sorry for your losses.
>>>
>>> Terri Wilcox
>>>
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