A veteran has recalled the horror moment he was blinded by a sniper in 2006 during his tour of Iraq. Simon Brown, 46, was shot in the face, the bullet entered his left cheek and exited through the right. He said a ‘fog descended’ and he slipped into a coma. He woke up 17 days later in a Birmingham hospital. “My world fell apart. I’d lost my career; I’d lost my job and I’d lost my future,” he said. “I just felt cheated and robbed. When you go through adversity, all your focus goes on what you've