[Missouri-l] Fw: [Nfb-announce] Let Freedom Ring: Braille Letters to President Barack Obama is now available

[Chip Hailey]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 10:11 AM
Subject: [Nfb-announce] Let Freedom Ring: Braille Letters to President 
Barack Obama is now available


Dear Federationists:

In the fall of 2009, the National Federation of
the Blind put out a call for Americans to write
letters to President Barack Obama expressing the
role that being able to read and write Braille
plays in their lives.  The NFB was flooded with
responses from a large variety of blind and
sighted people­from school children to working
professionals to retired senior citizens.  While
there are great variances in the people who
responded, one factor was the same: that Braille
plays a vital role in their lives and is an
important, and indeed necessary, tool for the blind.

We have compiled one hundred of these letters
into a book intended to be presented to President
Barack Obama.  This morning, February 1, 2010,
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan received the
publication on behalf of the President at a
ceremony at the United States Department of Education.

During the event, Secretary Duncan, other
dignitaries from the Department of Education, and
leaders of the NFB heard from various speakers,
including Marc Maurer, President of the National
Federation of the Blind, two school children, and
a parent of a blind child.  Fredric K. Schroeder,
First Vice President of the NFB, presented the
book and asked the Secretary to support the NFB's
goal of doubling the number of school-age
children reading Braille. Secretary Duncan left
the event with the knowledge that Braille is
vital to the independence of the blind.  And he
left armed with the book that will give President Obama this knowledge as 
well.

Let Freedom Ring: Braille Letters to President
Barack Obama is now available for you to read on
our Web site at
<file:///http://is.gd/7jiz3>http<file:///http://is.gd/7jiz3>://is.gd/7jiz3.

This event and the release of this book is a
great way to begin our 2010 Washington Seminar!

Let Federationism Ring!


Mark A. Riccobono
Executive Director, Jernigan Institute
National Federation of the Blind
<file:///mailto:mriccobono@nfb.org>mriccobono at nfb.org



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