Talk:Braille flag

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The Braille flag as a fully tactile graphic accompanied with a user key that aides the blind in denoting the orientation, and colors of the American flag's stripes, stars and blue field, also bearing the American Pledge of Allegiance in raised print and grades one and two Braille was created at the Kansas Braille Transcription Institute, in Wichita, Kansas. Google American Braille Flag, or go to www.kbti.org

The Braille flag was endorsed by the Blinded Veterans Association during its 61st Annual Convention in Buffalo, New York in 2006. The Blinded Veterans Association is the only congressionally recognized organization in the United States for the nation's blinded veterans. Visit: www.bva.org.

Washington: 4th District, November 13, 2007. Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas along with 16 others co-sponsors a bill asking the 110th Congress for placement of the Braille flag as a monument to Americas' blinded veterans, blind service members, and other blind Americans at the Arlington National Cemetery.Randolph Cabral (talk) 15:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)