You are a patriot, sir! I got hit in the shins by motar fire. I didn't get hit that bad. I got a Purple Heart, and I don't even claim that, but I claimed no disabliity. I was "doc"...yep, a medic..corpsmen..what ever you want to call it. It happened in such a way that the injury was slight. I dug the schrmnal out with a pair of forcepts. A little bandage and I was still on duty. I had too, I was the only "doc" for my outfit. My job was just as important as the auto/weps, or the radio man, or any rifle man in that company. They would have done the same thing. The undeclared pledge in our company was: If you ain't dead, or missin' somthing, you keep fighting, till you can't do it nomore!
I'll trust your one eye to any two I've ever known.
If they come after us, they have sealed their fate. We don't quit till we win!
I'd still like the chance to use the good eye looking through the sights of one of these: