Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about his life is that it can be so ordinary - celebrating his birthday last week in North Wildwood, watching the World Cup at the Piazza in Northern Liberties, drinking beer after bar-league golf outings. When he saw out of his left eye that he had no legs - his right eye had shrapnel in it, and is now blind - he told his guys to let him die on the mountain: 'I don't want to go home like this. Six years ago last month, Kevin was blown up in Afghanistan. On a good day, he scores in the low 90s, although he did wrap a 6-iron around a tree this spring on not such a good day. He pivots behind the bar with a dexterity you only get on the job. Kevin bartends two nights a week on Frankford Avenue.
Woman Gets Dream Wedding Day Before Her Death.They have two dogs, a mastiff, Murdock, who pees at the slightest excitement, and a tougher little terrier named Dean, as in Martin. Kevin and Bridget, who grew up blocks apart in Mayfair, own a house now in Elkins Park. 'Every time he tells the story,' says Bridget McGeehan, 27, 'it gets earlier and earlier.' She swears it was the summer after sixth grade, maybe seventh. Kevin McCloskey, 27, is getting married in May to a girl he first kissed under the Wildwood boardwalk in fifth grade.
