Sergeant First Class Layne Morris (b. 1962) is a retired soldier in an American Special Forces unit. Sergeant Morris was wounded and blinded in one eye during a fire-fight on July 27, 2002 that left Sergeant 1st Class Christopher J. Speer dead."A piece of the hand grenade shrapnel cut the optic nerve, So I'm blind in one eye."The Canadian Omar Khadr, then fifteen and held since 2002 by the United States, is alleged to have been responsible for Speer's death.