Homes For Our Troops and the NFL team up to celebrate Marine SSgt Omar Milan’s Groundbreaking

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Homes For Our Troops (HFOT), in collaboration with the NFL, celebrated the start of construction on a new specially adapted custom home for retired Marine SSgt Omar Milan, who was injured in Afghanistan, on April 28 in Mansfield, Texas. The Groundbreaking event signifies the start of the build process and provided members of the HFOT organization …

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Meet HFOT Volunteer Jim Gray

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Several days a week, Jim Gray can be found volunteering at HFOT’s headquarters office in Taunton, Massachusetts. A proud Navy Veteran, Gray is usually sporting a baseball cap adorned with an array of military insignias and HFOT pins. Gray has helped the organization since its early days in 2004, most recently assisting the Development Department …

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HFOT honors Vietnam Veterans

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Forty-five years ago, on March 29, 1973, the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, ending America’s longest conflict to date. There were no Welcome Home parades to greet these brave men and women when they arrived back to the United States, nor had there been many warm receptions from their countrymen. We at Homes For …

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Hurricane Help: HFOT Veteran heads to Houston to aid in recovery

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Hurricane Help: HFOT Veteran heads to Houston to aid in recovery An HFOT Veteran decided to continue serving this great country and packed up his flat bottom boat and headed for Houston. Here is his firsthand account of what he found: We found a catastrophic situation when arriving in the flooded areas from hurricane Harvey. …

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Veteran reflections on Memorial Day

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Feb. 27, 2011, will always be a date Army Staff Sergeant Alex Dillmann will never forget. It is not only the day he became paralyzed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast while serving in Afghanistan, it is also when he lost his friend and fellow Soldier Sergeant Kristopher J. Gould. Every Memorial Day, cities …

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