<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <!-- #BeginTemplate "templates/index.dwt" --> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> <!-- #BeginEditable "doctitle" --> <title>VetDogs - our supported charity</title> <!-- #EndEditable --> <meta name="author" content="Cheryl D Wise, http://by-expression.com" /> <link href="christmas.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- #BeginEditable "headsection" --> <!-- page level styles or scripts go here --> <style type="text/css"> </style> <!-- #EndEditable --> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <img alt="Merry Christmas" height="125" src="images/christmas-masthead.jpg" width="750" /> <div id="menu"> <a href="index.html">home</a> <a href="map.html">map</a> <a href="gifts.html">gift</a><a href="charity.html"> charity</a> <a href="rsvp.html">rsvp</a></div> <div id="content"> <!-- #BeginEditable "content" --> <h1><img alt="vetdogs" height="175" src="images/vetdogs.gif" width="282" class="ftright" />Our 2007 Charity</h1> <p> When the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind was founded in 1946, part of its mission was to provide guide dogs, free of charge, to wounded soldiers returning from World War II.</p> <!-- I wanted the dog image to be flush with the side of the content section. This was accomplished by adding a negative margin to offset the content padding. It could also have been done using position: relative. --> <p><img alt="dog" class="ftleft" height="284" src="images/christmas-dog.jpg" width="200" style="margin-left: -.5em" />Sixty years later, the Foundation is still giving the gift of independence and mobility to veterans who are blind or visually impaired. However, as our nation’s veterans age, and as wounded soldiers return home from the global war on terrorism, we have come to recognize that there is an increased need for guide and service dogs to help these men and women live again with dignity and self-reliance. Could a service dog program be developed to help the wounded soldiers returning from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan? </p> <!-- #EndEditable --> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>© 2007 <a href="http://by-expression.com/">by-eypression.com</a> </p> </div> </div> </body> <!-- #EndTemplate --> </html>