Jim Fausone
\nVeterans Disability Lawyer<\/p>\n
In 2008, two vets pooled their military disability payments to launch Purple Heart Homes<\/a>, a nonprofit company which modifies or helps work on homes for disabled vets on the East Coast.<\/p>\n Dale Beatty, a vet with prosthetic legs from his time in combat in Iraq, spent a year recovering at Walter Reed<\/a>, then came home. He had planned to build a house for his wife and children when he returned home, but working in construction with prosthetic legs, and sometimes in a wheelchair, made working harder than he had planned on. Members of his church stepped in and helped build a wheelchair-accessible home for Beatty while he supervised. Beatty also called a building contractor and friend, John Gallina, who had suffered a traumatic brain injury while driving a Humvee in Iraq \u2013 in the same blast that cost Beatty his legs. Beatty, Gallina and the work crew finished Beatty’s (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer In 2008, two vets pooled their military disability payments to launch Purple Heart Homes, a nonprofit company which modifies or helps work on homes for disabled vets on the East Coast. Dale Beatty, a vet…<\/span><\/p>\n