Comments on: Creating Schools, And Bridges, To Children

Greg Mortenson's Inspiring Tale Has Helped Raise Money To Build Schools For Asian Students ... A Penny At A Time

[lauriemann57]

The story on Greg Mortensen was fascinating. Thanks for publicizing his good work.

In your story on Louis Braille, you mentioned that Helen Keller was blind from birth. That''s incorrect. She had normal sight and hearing until she was about 18 months old, when a severe illness left her blind and deaf.

I''m sure you''ll do a story on the odd coincidence that Darwin and Lincoln. who had profound impacts on history, were born on the same day in 1809. I was unaware that Braille was born within five weeks of their birth. Is there anyone else with historical impact who was born in the winter of 1809?