[tabi] Re: from today's Democrat, a letter to the editor
- From: Beth <thebluesisloose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:52:28 -0400
Wow. That whole letter is correct.
On 6/29/09, Allison and Chip Orange <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The blind deserve and earn respect
>
> I was disappointed that the Division of Blind Services lost the state
> contract to run the food concession stands in state office buildings a few
> years back. I used to savor the moment of buying a newspaper and enjoying a
> Coke on the honor system at the state Blind Services delis. It was a special
> luxury to do business with the blind at the Koger Center and in the R.A.
> Gray Building.
>
> My German grandfather was 99-percent deaf and yet he was a very smart man of
> many talents. He was fortunate to attend Heidelberg University in a program
> for the deaf and developed a mastery of playing the organ and was a master
> gardener. When he was 84, he went back to college to study hydraulics, a
> lifelong ambition come true.
>
> Once on Park Avenue here while I was waiting for a bus, a blind man at the
> bus stop told me that the blind are subject to abuse much like elder abuse.
> Another blind man once told me of the difficulty with an American public
> that assumes everyone is sighted. And has a car.
>
> With more premature births comes a deaf and blind condition that may mean
> the number of deaf or blind babies in the population is increasing. We need
> to respect the blind.
>
> MARJORIE L. WRIGHT
>
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