With the summer heat moderating and milder weather on the horizon, BVA National Membership Coordinator and adaptive sports enthusiast Teresa Galgano shares an outdoor autumn activity option offering both challenge and unexpected rewards to a blind or low vision veteran. When I first heard about adaptive mountain biking, I wasn’t sure if it was something I could tackle. However, I decided to take the plunge, and what a surprise! Not only did I do it,

BVA supports National Guide Dog Month during September! While a formal annual celebration of guide dogs in the United States may be relatively new, historians and anthropologists trace the domestication of dogs to approximately 150,000 years ago. Ancient artifacts and scrolls show instances in which dogs were guiding their human companions. The first attempt to train guide dogs was in Paris at the ‘Les Quinze-Vingts’ hospital for the blind. The founder of the Institute for

More than 60 National Day of Service and Remembrance events will occur on September 11 at VA national cemeteries across 34 states and Puerto Rico, VA announced earlier this week. Open to the public, the events will honor the veterans, service members, law enforcement personnel, firefighters, and other first responders who served and sacrificed on September 11, 2001, and beyond. VA’s National Cemetery Administration (NCA) is partnering in the effort with Carry the Load and