00:04losing your vision changes the way you might interact with the world forever and losing
00:08another sense like hearing makes everyday activities even harder but at a more than 100
00:12year old machining shop just outside seattle one man who has lost both his eyesight and his hearing
00:17is not letting adversity stop him from working this is 59 year old john romish he's been working
00:23at the lighthouse for the blind for 25 years doing heavy-duty machining so what is he making
00:27well everything from bespoke items to canteens to aerospace equipment romish says that as his vision
00:33degraded he was fired from his other jobs finally finding lighthouse and he's been there ever since
00:38pat o'hara the company coo says they employ the highest number of legally blind people west of
00:43the mississippi which is good news as he also says that some 70 percent of blind blind and deaf and
00:49blind people with other disabilities remain unemployed giving them an opportunity to hold
00:53their head high and do something that you know not everybody would expect you to be able to do as
00:59a blind person manufacturing airplane airplane parts
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