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Injured Iraq war veteran comes home, to a free home of his own
Homes for our Troops is a nonprofit that builds homes for injured vets in 20 states.
from the March 20, 2008 edition
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Fountaine's is the 25th house the group has finished, and Gonsalves hopes to grow big enough never to have to turn down a vet who qualifies for the group's services. Of the approximately 30,000 injured veterans, he estimates about 2,000 are in the kind of condition that qualifies for help.
"To have a home that was built every second of its construction with Brian in mind, and everybody's thoughts being on love for Brian, and repaying him for what he's done – I've never been in a place like this," says Mary Long, Fountaine's fiancée.
"Ever since I came home from the hospital ... it's been literally amazing," Fountaine says. " I could never fathom the amount of support I've had, even from perfect strangers. They're against the war, they don't like the president, they don't like what's going on, but when us guys come home ... we're taken care of.... As my dad says, 'It's been a great ending to a bad beginning.' "
Fountaine and Ms. Long will be married June 8, the second anniversary of his "alive day," the day he survived the bomb that exploded under his Humvee. Then they will come home to a house built by friends they didn't know they had.
For more information on Homes for Our Troops, see www.homesforourtroops.org.
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