Michaun Harrison, president of the Blinded Veterans Association’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Group, and Edd Bond a member of the regional group from Williamsburg, Virginia, participated in a symbolic flag-raising ceremony November 3 at the recently opened downtown City Hall in Manassas Park, Virginia. Michaun also spoke at the event, promoting BVA’s services to veterans with sight loss and the recent bylaw amendment expanding eligibility for membership. Edd was accompanied by his wife, Wilma Bond. The event […]

VetTech Welcomes Vispero as November Series Continues This Wednesday Join the Blinded Veterans Association’s VetTech Team this Wednesday, November 9, at 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time. The session will again feature the Freedom Scientific Podcast Team of Rachel Buchanan, the company’s Director of User Education and Technical Support, and her colleague, Liz Whitaker. The duo will share with the BVA audience what’s new with the three most powerful tools that both enable and empower blind and low-vision […]

BVA has a Women Veterans Group that currently meets via Zoom every fourth Thursday of the month at 6:00pm Eastern Time. The meetings attract women veterans from throughout the country. The upcoming general session this Thursday, October 27, is open to all female veterans with sight loss who are interested in the activities, support, and camaraderie offered by the group, which have included recreational activities in various regions of the United States in 2017-19 and […]

The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) invites you to this week’s monthly virtual meeting of the organization’s Women Veterans Group. The Thursday, October 27, meeting via Zoom beginning at 6:00pm Eastern Time is open to all female blinded veterans. The discussion is not limited to a specific group of women veterans already established nor is attendance at previous meetings a requirement to attend Thursday’s meeting. Please share the following information and link with your fellow veterans […]

Caution, Blind Priest Driving: The Story of Father Thomas J. Carroll, Changing the Public’s Perception of Blindness by Rachel Ethier Rosenbaum has recently become available to BVA members and their families via Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD), a service of the National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Print Disabled. Father Carroll served as BVA’s first National Chaplain from 1946 until his untimely death in 1971. He was a pioneer in the field […]

BVA Executive Director Donald D. Overton, Jr. contributed to a USA Today article published October 19 entitled “Blind to Problems: VA’s new medical record system is shutting out visually impaired patients.” The article, written by Darius Tahir of Kaiser Health News, details the potential difficulties that more than a million veterans may encounter as they attempt to use VA’s new digital health record system, developed by Oracle Cerner. Two of the more prevalent issues are […]

Special receptions, programs, and walks commemorating White Cane Awareness Day, now known also as Blind Americans Equality Day, have involved several BVA regional groups in different parts of the country. The activities typically occur at VA medical facilities, state and local government agencies, community centers, shopping centers, schools, and other organizations of and for the blind. The official date of October 15, this year falling on a Saturday, moved some of the commemorative events to […]