At age six, he went blind in his right eye after hitting an overhanging tree branch while horseback riding Aged sixteen, he went blind in the other eye while boxing with a friend.pic.twitter.com/5iOPgLlM9V
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At age six, he went blind in his right eye after hitting an overhanging tree branch while horseback riding Aged sixteen, he went blind in the other eye while boxing with a friend.pic.twitter.com/5iOPgLlM9V
In a bizarre coincidence, his mother's blindness was also caused by two unrelated accidents: she went blind in one eye when delivering her first son, and in the other fifteen years later when she was thrown from a horse.
When Morris was a 20 year old student, his dad read him an article by Dorothy Eustice, a woman living in Switzerland who had seen shepherds training dogs to help WW1 veterans blinded in combat get aroundpic.twitter.com/fH3nR0SvPq
Morris travelled to Switzerland to meet Eustis. He promised to start up a guide school for the blind if he could have training and receive a dog himself. Eustis accepted and Morris was given a German Shepherd called Buddy. He returned to USA with her after a month by ship.
In New York city on 11 June 1928, Morris Frank took one big step for the disabled. He arrived on the SS Tuscania with Buddy. A group of curious & incredulous reporters greeted him at the dock demanding to know exactly what this dog could do for him
Morris boasted that Buddy could take him anywhere. "Even across West Street?", they asked West street was known locally as Death Avenue It was one of the most hazardous thoroughfares. Morris said, " Show me to it brother and Buddy will take me across it"pic.twitter.com/hE3xoq74Ih
Against a backdrop of clipping hooves, blaring horns, screeching brakes and the clamour of people, Buddy negotiated the wide cobblestone street and led her tall, blind master in his well cut suit safely to the other side & over the kerb.pic.twitter.com/ngizzFOlyP
He kept his word and started up a guide school on 29 January 1929. He called it The Seeing Eyepic.twitter.com/MhapYaDoZ1
When Morris returned to Nashville, people were amazed at the sight of a blind man & dog successfully navigating streets. Frank wrote "I envied two sighted strangers striking up a conversation. With Buddy there, it was the easiest thing for them to say what a lovely dog you havepic.twitter.com/78l6usjAgc
Buddy remained a national hero for the rest of her life. When she died in. May 1938, the event was noted with a long obituary in the New York Times.
Today, the Seeing Eye has trained over 14,000 dogs.
Buddy was the first
@SeeingEyeInc #guidedog
@GDB_officialpic.twitter.com/OkcPgpqIux
Animals are amazing and what an amazing man.
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