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Volunteers raised a veteran's house on the National Mall
Purple Heart Homes framed an accessible house near the National Gallery of Art for Marine Corps veteran James Taylor. The plan is to haul it to Glasgow, Virginia.
On Oct. 5, workers set the finished 480-square-foot house on a foundation on Shawnee Street in Glasgow, Virginia, The News-Gazette reported. James Taylor, who lives in transitional housing in Statesville, North Carolina, cannot move in until utilities and a front porch are finished. A ceremony to give him the house is planned for Veterans Day.
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Volunteers framed an accessible house on the National Mall for 76-year-old Marine Corps veteran James Taylor, WTOP reported. Purple Heart Homes, which provides safe housing for disabled veterans, is building it near the National Gallery of Art. The group finishes about 220 projects a year, and this is the first time it has used that spot on the Mall as a construction site.
John Gallina, the nonprofit's chief executive, said the house will be hauled to Glasgow, Virginia, in about a week and set on a foundation there. He said being chosen for the home had already changed Taylor's life, because Taylor no longer felt invisible. Volunteers from the Home Depot Foundation helped raise the walls on Tuesday. A closing ceremony is planned for October 5, once the house is finished.
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