Thank you for supporting Homes For Our Troops in 2017. Before we ring in the New Year, check out our latest Rebuilding Lives video, featuring Army Sergeant First Class Charles Armstead. Because of support from individuals like you, Charles is playing basketball, kayaking, hand cycling, and, most of all, enjoying life in his specially adapted HFOT home….
…seeing nothing but dust around him. After the blast, a feeling of weightlessness overcame him. Still conscious and communicating with his team who was working on him, he was then loaded onto the helicopter for medical evacuation to Landstuhl, Germany. In the weeks and months of rehabilitation that followed, Joshua would progress on his prosthetics and eventually return to his active lifestyle. An avid outdoorsman, Joshua enjoys hunting, fishing, four-wheeling, attending sporting events and being at the beach. He is…
…not only help Soldiers, but most importantly, these homes help Veterans be more productive individuals to family and friends,” he says. related articles: Vantage Point, Jan. 8, 2020 Vicente Ramirez, an Army Veteran who lost one leg and injured the other in two IED blasts in Iraq in 2006, received a new home, built and paid for by the nonprofit Homes For Our Troops. Read more. Northwest Florida Daily News, Feb. 2, 2019 Homes For Our Troops will soon begin…
…had come to love so much over his seven years of service. In October 2009, two years after Timothy’s military separation, doctors eventually diagnosed him with Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsies (HNPP), a condition that affects the sensory and motor nerves. Tim’s case was progressive, and he experienced increasing weakness and atrophy in his limbs. Timothy lived with his mother, Gloria, his primary caretaker, in his specially adapted Homes For Our Troops home. Although Gloria says it was…
CPL ROBERT THRAILKILL, JR. Belding, MI Mission Accomplished on June 6, 2015 On Oct. 26, 2010, while on foot patrol in Afghanistan investigating a suspicious dirt mound near a secured building with the 3/5 Marines, Marine Corporal Robert Thrailkill Jr., a comabt engineer, sustained the traumatic amputations of both legs above the knee and extensive damage to his right hand when he stepped on a pressure-plated improvised explosive device (IED). He was 19 at the time of his injury…
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