We
Are Commited to...
Locating
blinded veterans who need services.
Guiding
blinded veterans through their habilitation process.
Acting
as advocates for blinded veterans and their families in the public and
private sectors.
Promoting
access to technology and the practical use
of the latest research.
Offering encouragement
and emotional support.
Providing
role models who can demonstrate that the challenges of blindness can be
successfully
overcome.
Serving
as a medium of communication for and about blinded veterans and the issues
that affect
them.
Supporting
vocational and recreational programs that foster rehabilitation.
White Cane Safety Day
A white cane in our society has become one of the symbols
of a blind person's ability to come and go on his own. It use has promoted
courtesy and special consideration for the blind on our
streets and highways. To make our people more fully aware of the meaning
of the white cane, and of the need for motorists to exercise special care
for the blind persons who carry it, the
Congress, by a joint resolution approved
October 6, 1964 has authorized the President
to proclaim October 15th of each
year as White Cane Safety Day.
NOW, THEREFORE, I LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim October
l5, 1964 as White
Cane Safety Day.
I urge civic and service organizations, schools, public bodies, and the
media of public information to join in this observance with appropriate
activities designed to promote continuing awareness of the significance
of the white cane to blind persons. I call upon all our citizens to make
every effort to promote the safety and welfare of our blind persons on
the streets and highways, and thereby to contribute to their independence
of spirit and their capability for self-management.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of
the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington
this sixth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
sixty four, and of the independence of United States of America the one
hundred and eighty-ninth.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
By the president:
DEAN RUSK
Secretary of State
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