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Governor’s Prayer Breakfast to Feature Blind Active-Duty Army Officer Smiley
In 2005, while leading his platoon in Mosul, Iraq, Major Smiley found himself in front of a suicide car bomber. After the man blew himself up, shrapnel blew through Scotty's eyes, leaving him blinded and temporarily paralyzed.