Night Vision

“There’s a world in front of me I can’t predict or envision because I haven’t been there yet. I haven’t lived this yet. I haven’t lived blind,” he says. “All I ask is to stay in the Army and finish out my years … I want to feel productive.”

The only good news for now is when he sleeps, Castro says.

“I’ve had dreams where I know I’m blind and, guess what? I’ve regained my vision,” he says. Reality floods back each morning.

“There’s not a night that I don’t pray and ask God, when I wake up, that I wake up seeing.”

–newly blinded veteran 1st Lt. Ivan Castro

First Lt. Castro is a member of a whole new generation of veterans that is, unfortunately, learning a new meaning of the phrase “night vision.”

Still, as I’ve pointed out before, even in the middle of the night, dawn occasionally breaks.