The day Osama Bin Laden died, I learned one of my former Marines was permanently blind. He was recovering from an IED strike and I'd called to check in. Months back they'd said his vision loss was temporary. As it turned out, he'd regained peripheral vision, but no more. The Corps had trained him as a journalist. Now he couldn't read.Three hours later I learned Bin Laden was dead: news that should have felt like closure, but didn't. One of my Marines was blind, and though I wanted to tie in Osama's death and 9/11 to make sense of it, I couldn't.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/09/11/how_we_mourned_why_we_fought_263275.html
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