Veterans homebuilding charity gets a boost this holiday season

December 22nd, 2011 | Recent News, Veterans

by Christie Garton, USA Today

When John Gallina returned home to Statesville, N.C., in 2004 after serving in Iraq with the state’s National Guard, life was not the same.

Not only was he recovering from a traumatic brain injury he sustained when an anti-tank mine exploded under his vehicle, the homebuilding career that Gallina had left behind just didn’t seem to cut it anymore.

“I was dissatisfied with just building homes,” Gallina says. “I had a desire to give back… that my life not just be about building.”

After constructing a specially adapted home for his friend and “battle buddy” Dale Beatty, who lost both legs below the knee in the same explosion, a light bulb went off: Why not do the same for other veterans?

Read more in USA Today


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