A veteran in Cedar Hill received a gift of a custom home that was built for his specific needs.
Homes for Our Troops is an organization that donates homes for wounded veterans.
On Saturday, about 60 volunteers helped the non-profit get Marine Corporal Raymond Hennagir III’s home ready by laying down sod. "It allows me to actually utilize all the space in the kitchen, being able to have the countertops at a lower height makes it easier for me for prepping food and making food. The roll under for the sinks and all that makes it easy," Hennagir said.
"Homes for Our Troops, they’re very particular. They’ve got everything laid out. Joe comes out from Homes for Our Troops and they measure everything and it had to be spot on," said Stoney Short, owner of Mansfield Custom Homes. Hennagir lost both his limbs and several fingers on his left hand while on his second deployment in Iraq in 2007."I would go to surgery, take like a day break, and then go back into surgery," he recalled. "But it was all for the end goal of being at my platoon’s homecoming, which I was able to make. So that was a lot of pain and a lot of like, anguish, but all worth it in the end when I was able to welcome my guys back home.
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