Troop support group builds home for wounded soldier and his mom

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Parsons lost home while recuperating from war wounds


Troop support group builds home for wounded soldier and his mom
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, January 11, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. — All Cpl. Shane Parsons wanted for 2008 was the chance to sleep in his own bed.

And after everything the 22-year-old Army infantryman had been through, beginning with the roadside bomb in Ramadi, Iraq, on Sept. 30, 2006, that took both his legs, it seemed like such a simple wish.

Now, as he went through a painful rehabilitation at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, “Shane would say, ‘Just have my room ready. I can’t wait to come home and sleep in my own bed,’” said his mom, Cindy Parsons.

But Cindy had to steel herself to tell her son a brutal truth: he didn’t have a bed anymore.

He didn’t have a home.


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