American Valor Quarterly Issue 8 - Winter 2010/2011 | Page 12

Bettmann/Corbis

front of me, and I began swinging back and forth like a baby in In a little while, I was wheeled away for a closer examination.
its mother’s arms. I closed my eyes and drifted into Then, I was left alone to ponder my fate. After a while, my nurse
unconsciousness.
Marie came over to my bed. I could tell that it was not good
news she was bringing. She told me that my injured eye was
I had no idea how long I lay there on the ground, but when I affecting my good eye and that I could lose sight in both of
awoke, I was staring into the bus [