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THEN, UNEXPECTEDLY, he began to detect outlines and shapes. He saw his way through his hallway and living room. He took in his wife’s dark eyes, his daughter’s smile, the pink roses he had planted years before outside his kitchen window. “This we thought would never happen,” said his wife, Veronica. Two years after he was nearly killed at the Pentagon, Cruz can also see in vivid detail what before he could only feel and imagine: the amputated stubs of his fingers, the scorching burns on his neck, the bone-deep wound on his scarred leg. He is still undergoing surgery, still on painkillers — better than he once was, never the same. “It is not over,” he said one recent day, sitting at the kitchen table of his Woodbridge home. • Special report: Two years later For him, the wounds of that terrible September day are lasting — and so intense that only recently has he begun to absorb how incredibly damaged his body was.
Approximate Word count = 641
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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