Nick Wilson giving his life to his country is the last thing John Crabtree ever saw.
“Lincoln’s birthday, 2006. Western Iraq. Anbar Province. It was a Sunday morning,” Crabtree says with the precision of an amateur military historian, which he is, with the recall of a Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, which he was.
Crabtree is under the tent at Bengals training camp because his good friend, Joe Messerly, began to realize that even though he was blinded by a hoax, a box taped with wires and hate laying on top of the real killer bomb buried in the ground, Crabtree can still see some very real things.