Injured vet and family one step closer to being 'finally home'

Injured vet and family one step closer to being 'finally home'

By: ALEX FREEDMAN
Published: August 17, 2011

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - After being knocked unconscious from an IED in Iraq, a retired military staff sergeant and his family are one step closer to being 'finally home'.

Lot 70 in Aragona Village doesn’t look like much, but for Staff Sergeant Vince Gizzarelli and his family it’s a new beginning.

“Until I walk through the doors to move my furniture into that place, I don’t think it’s going to be real until then,” said Vince Gizzarelli, a retired Marine veteran.

It was back in 2004 when reality hit Gizzarelli, during his second tour in Iraq, where an IED exploded, knocking him unconscious.

“I was a leader in the Marines and I didn’t want to show any weakness and I basically sucked it up,” said Gizzarelli.

Five years later, in 2009, Gizzarelli retired from the Marines after being diagnosed with PTSD and other related brain injuries.
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