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It's a phone call no one ever wants to answer. "He said 'Scotty's come face-to-face with a suicide car bomb and it exploded. There's shrapnel in both of his eyes and I don't know if he's going to live'," Tiffany Smiley recalled.In April of 2005, Tiffany's husband Scott Smiley was serving in Iraq. That's when a car bomb took his vision away and could have taken his life. "My eyesight was taken when he blew his car up. And then I found myself woken up in Walter Reed Army Medical Center blind for the rest of my life," Scott said.His wife, Tiffany, said in the moment, her world blew into a million pieces. She said she was presented paperwork to begin his medical retirement. She chose not to sign them.The doctors said 'Mrs. Smiley, you have power of attorney. Sign the paperwork to begin his medical retirement.' And I looked at them and I said 'no'," Tiffany said.Those papers would have retired Scott from the thing that gave him purpose. She couldn't do that."I took the paperwork, I put it in a drawer and I truly believed that there had to be another path," Tiffany added.Scott said that the journey has been tough, but he wouldn't trade it for anything. "It was my wife and family and friends that stood by me and enabled me, not only to forgive but to begin my recovery," Scott explained."He went on to become the first blind active duty officer to continue service to our country. He wrote a book, became a teacher, we had three beautiful boys along this journey," Tiffany said. It's the Smiley's story of perseverance that has impacted so many people.

It's a phone call no one ever wants to answer.

"He said 'Scotty's come face-to-face with a suicide car bomb and it exploded. There's shrapnel in both of his eyes and I don't know if he's going to live'," Tiffany Smiley recalled.

In April of 2005, Tiffany's husband Scott Smiley was serving in Iraq.

That's when a car bomb took his vision away and could have taken his life.

"My eyesight was taken when he blew his car up. And then I found myself woken up in Walter Reed Army Medical Center blind for the rest of my life," Scott said.

His wife, Tiffany, said in the moment, her world blew into a million pieces. She said she was presented paperwork to begin his medical retirement.

She chose not to sign them.

The doctors said 'Mrs. Smiley, you have power of attorney. Sign the paperwork to begin his medical retirement.' And I looked at them and I said 'no'," Tiffany said.

Those papers would have retired Scott from the thing that gave him purpose. She couldn't do that.

"I took the paperwork, I put it in a drawer and I truly believed that there had to be another path," Tiffany added.

Scott said that the journey has been tough, but he wouldn't trade it for anything.

"It was my wife and family and friends that stood by me and enabled me, not only to forgive but to begin my recovery," Scott explained.

"He went on to become the first blind active duty officer to continue service to our country. He wrote a book, became a teacher, we had three beautiful boys along this journey," Tiffany said.

It's the Smiley's story of perseverance that has impacted so many people.

Originally posted here:
Army Major shares story of loss and triumph - KETV Omaha

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