OCEAN SHORES, Wash. – For more than 40 years Bill Vandenbush has had a traditional plastic prosthetic eye.
Then the Seahawks won the Super Bowl.
"I thought, you know, wouldn't it be great to have a Seahawks logo in my eye?" said Vandenbush.
In July, on his tenth wedding anniversary, his wife Shannon gave him an eye with a Seahawks logo on it.
"It's like a dream come true to have this," said Vandenbush, who lost his right eye in 1969 in Vietnam.
"I was blown up by a bomb," said Vandenbush, who was then shot five times by a sniper.
Doctors told him he would never regain eyesight in his right eye and would never talk again.
He still can't see, but was able to learn how to speak again.
Vandenbush said the reaction to the eye has ranged from "awesome" to "creepy."
He said he only plans on wearing it on game days or when he wants to show it off to friends or fans
He doesn't care what people think, he loves it.
"It's mean-looking, fierce, like the Seahawks," said Vandenbush.
The veteran said people with disabilities can either feel sad or celebrate the fact they are different and unique.
