
Last week’s BVA Happenings provided a comprehensive, exhaustive list of White Cane Awareness activities planned throughout the month of October. BVA members have been participating in many of the events, among them a display table at the VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Wilmington, North Carolina, on White Cane Day itself earlier this week. Erika Mitchell, an at-large BVA member from North Carolina, took the time to offer a few impressions of the day.
This past Wednesday, October 15, 2025, was a special day to demonstrate some exuberance in recognition of blind and low vision veterans of all branches of the United States military. It was National White Cane Safety Day!
I was honored to be able to set up an information table at the VA Clinic in Wilmington, North Carolina. White Cane Day gave us as BVA members an opportunity to provide information about the organization and its mission to veterans visiting the clinic. We emphasized BVA’s role in helping veterans with sight loss navigate various aspects of the VA health care system. We also socialized with our fellow veterans and explained the other benefits of BVA membership and all that the Association offers to blind and low vision veterans.
All the veterans visiting our table were receptive and open to the information that we provided from BVA and which Carrie Callahan, our Visual Impairment Services Team (VIST) Coordinator, provided from VA.
I am thankful that we could all communicate with one another on White Cane Day, and I hope and pray that activities such as these will generate more members for the Blinded Veterans Association!