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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: Pending Expulsion from NFB
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Date: 14 Mar 91 04:23:53 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Illiam, I can't respond as elequantly as the writing of your message,
but when I hear what David says about the NFB I can identify with
feeling that way myself.  When I was an officer, board member of the
state, and really into it i took a simarly hard line approach when
stating my opinions about a position.  I don't think I've dhanged that
much since I got out of the NFB but one I did learn from my NFB
experience is that you can't go wrong thinking for yourself, doing for
yourself, and not just following the party line.  I take my experience
with NfB as a learning experience and I learned a lot and had many
experiences I never would have had if I'd not been a member.  Every
organization has its good side and not so good as they are run byhuman
beings.  The NFB is good at recruting new members and turning them into
or maybe more correctly sated encouraging them to become loyal members.
 I can honestly say I've never been as loyal to any other organization
as I was tothe NFB during my time.  I just never got that loyalty
returned by other officers but maybe it was good.  If I was in the NFB
today likely as not I wouldn't be teaching  people the basics of
Computing and running a Radio Reading Service but I'd be out blazing
ttrails.  I guess I'm feeling old but my studeos and classroom make me
very happy. Grant

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