Ba Teen Cast

The following podcast was recorded for use by customers of Minnesota’s State Services for the Blind. You can get more information about State Services for the Blind and the services it offers by going to www (dot) mnssb (dot) org. (music) To Serve My Country, from Future Reflections, a publication of the National Federation of the Blind by Evelyn Valdez I want to thank Carol Castellano for inviting me to speak today. I really appreciate my New Jersey family that has always believed in me! My story is a bit different from some, so I want to give you some background on how I came into the blindness game. I did not grow up as a blind child. When I became blind at seventeen, and I'd hear other blind students talk about the camps they went to where they had lots of friends, I couldn't relate. I had never gone to those camps, and I felt left out. But I brought into play some other experiences. I think my parents were a bit shocked when I started to go blind. They didn't know how to react. I know I had a littl