My name is Nora and I currently guide BVA member Sheldon McKinney in Rowlett, Texas. I have so many unique “tails” to share with you this month. I thought I would start at the beginning. I was born in December of 2019. From 7-12 weeks-old I was raised by three young women in off-campus housing. Midway through March 2020, my puppy raiser and I returned home when the pandemic struck. We stayed until June 2020

President Harry S. Truman presents the Official Insignia of the Blinded Veterans Association, Inc., to the executives of the organization. Included in the photograph from left to right are: Lloyd M. Greenwood, Executive Director, New York; Harrison King, Washington, D.C.; James W. Hope, Gastonia, N.C.; Raymond T. Frey, Past President, Le Banon, Pennsylvania; Byrum S. Shumway, of Board of Directors, Baltimore, Maryland; President Harry S. Truman; Irvin P. Schloss, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert Pistel, Chairman, Baltimore,

Flanked by Lawrence Harrison and Michaun Harrison, Air Force veteran Claudia Baldwin breaks for lunch following her solo rendition of “The U.S. Air Force,” adopted as the military branch’s official song in the late 1940s. Regional groups throughout the country are now on the move to hold spring meetings to determine which members of the group will attend the BVA 79th National Convention and to elect convention delegates and alternate delegates. The urgency is, at

BVA’s own Marlene Davis-Lilly, Deputy National Service Director, member of the Captain Buddy Spivey Razorback Regional Group and Chapter Coordinator of Central Arkansas Team River Runner, schedules regular kayak events for area blinded veterans beginning in April of every year. This year was different, however, due to the theft of 12 kayaks and other essential gear. “We had an event programmed for the month of April to teach our blinded veterans of Memphis how to