Purple Heart veteran reacts to seeing free fully furnished home for the first time

LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) – Many thanks to a non-financial gain business and other group associates, a Purple Heart veteran now has a fully tailored, wheelchair-obtainable home in Athens. A single he can only explain as “A reward from God.”

Encouraging a Hero, Breland Residences and Ashley Homestore worked alongside one another to present amputee wounded warrior SFC Scott Barkalow, U.S. Army Retired and his wife Tina with a residence, home furnishings and appliances specially picked for his requires.

SFC Barkalow joined the Army in 1984 and spent 20 yrs in the National Guard. Even though deployed to Afghanistan with a group of Eco-friendly Berets in 2003, Barkalow’s truck rolled across an anti-tank mine on a mission, blowing off his correct leg.

Barkalow acquired Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Coronary heart.

An American flag now flies in Barkalow’s front lawn in the Nature’s Cove neighborhood of Athens, the fantastic touch for an American hero’s new house.

“You never believe you are deserving and you attempt to be accepting of it. I’m just grateful,” suggests SFC Barkalow.

But claims the home and extra furnishings are a blessing.

“You’re having a home that is 1 factor, but the following factor you obtain out is they are furnishing the home? That is remarkable. Which is joyous,” states SFC Barkalow.

The residence was designed attainable by Serving to a Hero, a non-income committed to supporting retired veterans who were hurt though serving.

“Its not a matter of if but when I’ll begin heading to a wheelchair so I don’t have any stairs here or anything like that in this home and that is designed all the big difference in the earth, unquestionably,” suggests SFC Barkalow.

And every depth, even down to the home furnishings was carefully imagined out.

“For instance, we in fact have a resilient materials couch and like seat and chair in their dwelling space due to the fact his prosthetic tends to tear leather-based,” claimed Meredith Iler, founder of Encouraging A Hero’s Property Application.

Which will make daily life a very little less difficult for another person who fought for the lives and freedoms of other people. One thing his wife Tina says is nicely deserved.

“He warrants each amazing matter. He’s constantly taken treatment of me and this is a way I can enable acquire treatment of him,” says Tina.

The dwelling unveiling was a group energy. House Depot donated a grill and wooden pellets, Bass Professional Stores helped with a gun harmless, Paula Deen sent a kitchen area deal, and Patti Breland donated a patriotic flag wall hanging.

The public is invited to “nominate a hero” and wounded heroes in will need of adaptive housing from the post-9/11 world-wide war on terror are invited to total the “home application.” Each kinds are offered on the net.