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These combat veterans don't let being blind stop them from boating

Lake Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club High Performance coach Jim O'Dell keeps a steady rhythm Monday, June, 3, 2019, as a group of blind veterans paddle a dragon boat for the first time. - photo by Scott Rogers

06042019 VETERANS 4.jpg — Lake Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club High Performance coach Jim O'Dell keeps a steady rhythm Monday, June, 3, 2019, as a group of blind veterans paddle a dragon boat for the first time. - photo by Scott Rogers

A group of seven American and British veterans, all blinded in some way during combat, climbed out of a dragon boat at the Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club’s boathouse Monday, June 3.