From: Barbara Freeman 
Subject: Re: setting an example
 Hi Alan:  I am sighted and my husband is blind, he is independent but
sometimes we use sighted guide and we used it more before we had a child.
When we were first married we used to all the time because we wanted to
hold hands. We were young and in love.  Does that make me a guide dog. 
We are about love and caring for our fellow blind.  That mans wife loves
him and they have chosen to be together for a longer time than most of us
have been alive.  
	Please cut out the hate and name calling it is not part of the NFB
that I belong to.  
	I have a blind husband and an adopted blind child.  I love my
family and I would love my family even if my husband lost his ability to
travel by himself tomorrow because of a stroke or other reason.  If I
helped him it would be because I love him and he is my husband and it
would not be a burden. 
Barbara Freeman
barbie@pacifier.com
  I pity his 
> wife.  I can only imagine the troubles it causes his wife.  I know my 
> wife would HATE having to be my guide dog!  In fact, she has told me so 
> in those very words.)  
> Alan Wheeler
> alanw@gbx.org
> da2ofus@techinter.com
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