I had a classmate in grade school went around looking like that.
We had to endure looking at him every day for several years, -one eye open and the other one stitched shut.
One year the joke about him going out on Halloween and 'not needing a mask', (it was actually a fairly new joke then). It really got to us, I don't think we deserved to endure it...
I think it was particularly bad, because we had to endure him for several YEARS that way, no change, no improvement, no glass eye. He was in my First, Second and Third Grade Classes.

We can fight two wars in Asia, and two wars simultaneously in the Middle East,, but we can't afford to put one glass eye into one kid's face.