Tuesday, December 30, 2003
"Maybe God thought you had seen enough killing."
This is an unspeakably sad article. None of the stuff that gets said every day about the war in Iraq can say quite what this story says.
posted by Blicero : 12/30/2003 04:23:00 AM
Sergeant Feldbusch said his attitude was evolving. "I'm fine with it now," he said. "I'm going to learn Braille. I'm going to get a cane. I'll survive. There's more to life than seeing. "
Even in his dreams, he no longer sees. And he has stopped trying to picture faces.
"When I was first in the hospital, I tried to think of what the doctors and nurses all looked like," he said. "But then I stopped. I'm blind. I figured why am I doing this? I'm never going to see them."
He went on: "It's not that I don't allow myself to get upset. I don't think about it. I had a job. I got hurt. Now I'm blind. My day is my day now."
posted by Blicero : 12/30/2003 04:23:00 AM
