<p>Blinded when a suicide bomber's car exploded in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005, Scotty Smiley was in Alaska this week speaking on behalf of a new wilderness lodge for wounded military members and their spouses.</p>
<p>Capt. Smiley, the first blind, active-duty Army officer, stood in uniform on a Port Alsworth dock jutting into Lake Clark and said he was enjoying the sun and fresh air. He talked to reporters about how the bomb blast nearly wrecked his marriage half a dozen years ago. An all-expenses-paid retreat like the one starting this weekend, put on by evangelist Franklin Graham's charity Samaritan's Purse, would go a long way toward helping other couples' relationships and faith survive a spouse's lasting battlefield wounds, Smiley said.</p>