He could, of course, improve his sight with glasses or contact lenses, but chooses not to.
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg lost his sight when he was hit by a grenade in Basra.
Douglas Sidialo lost his sight following the 1998 attack and now chairs an association for victims of the attack.
He has lost almost all of his sight over the past few years, but that hasn't depleted his dedication to the soldiers.
Sir Edward, 85, who was losing his sight and hearing, died on Friday alongside his terminally ill wife, 74, at Swiss right-to-die centre, Dignitas.
He took up gardening after losing his sight because, he says, it was the only thing he could find to do that made him feel good.
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He later set his sight on Hollywood, and in 1969 became the first African- American to produce and direct a picture for a major Hollywood studio, Warner Brothers.
Imagine the heat in the summer, the bitter cold in the winter, and Mandela going out to quarry stone, the burning white light reflecting off the limestone permanently and deeply injuring his sight.
Though a childhood accident all but robbed him of his sight in one eye, Bing played All-American basketball at Syracuse University and went on to become an NBA Hall of Famer as a point guard, mainly for the Detroit Pistons.
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Lone striker Freddy Eastwood endured a difficult first-half on his home debut, but the Wolves striker finally got his first sight on goal just before the break when his far-post header was blocked for a corner.
Because of his failing sight, Eastwood listens to the sound of the ball hitting the bat and has his daughter watch how the player grips the bat and how his hands move during a hit.
Ellington had his first sight of goal 17 minutes from time, but the former Wigan striker failed to get any power on his long-range strike and Begovic made a comfortable save.
Behind Jason's position, from where he scans the surrounding quay through his gun sight, is a dilapidated caravan.
His natural sight-reading skills were an advantage.
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After his last sight of the pathetically stricken Brahms, stooped and fumbling with sausages over the stove, Mahler curiously burst out to a friend that he himself wanted to die at the height of his powers, before his works became weaker.
But his failure around a gate and the sight of his skis breaking free, ended Ligety's attempt to make history.
The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his capacity as Prison Superintendent, lost sight of his role as psychologist and permitted the abuse to continue as though it were a real prison.
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Mr Milosevic, for his part, won moral authority in Serbia from the sight of his broadcasting headquarters reduced to rubble, with its young, female employees crushed under the debris.
At any organized pit fight in which two dogs are really going at each other wholeheartedly, one can observe the owner of each dog changing his position at pit-side in order to be in sight of his dog at all times.
On one of his walks Hugues catches sight of a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to his late wife.
The most you can expect by way of scene-setting here are occasional keen-eyed observations by Jesse Stone, the hero, of the women who cross his line of sight.
Despite growing up with a disorder that left his skin and hair pale, as well as his strength and eye sight weak, Torner has succeeded in making the best of his situation.
The man who drills home his point on Japanese demography, oblivious to turbulence and sloshing tea, is not a man who loses sight of his goal easily.
To compound their woes, goalkeeper David James was forced off with an injury to his left knee, a sight which would not have pleased on-looking England coach Fabio Capello ahead of his side's World Cup qualifier against Croatia on 9 September.
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As Delashmit explained to the NPR reporter, he was losing sight in his right eye.
Max caught sight of his wolf suit hanging on the back of the closet door.
He hasn't lost sight of his original mission, the desire to achieve "inclusive growth" for India's poor.
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