Disabled Desert Storm Marine Corps veteran getting new home after fire

Area family receives a home for Christmas
December 25, 2011 1:11 AM
JANNETTE PIPPIN - DAILY NEWS STAFF

RICHLANDS — An organization dedicated to providing housing solutions for service connected disabled veterans is giving special meaning to home for the holidays for an Onslow County family.

Purple Heart Homes and sponsor NewDay USA have stepped up to help put the James Davis family of Richlands into a new home that will help them recover from a fire while ensuring Davis’ specialized needs as a disabled veteran are met.

With work well under way, the Davis family celebrated the holidays in anticipation of moving into their new home soon. Completion of the project is expected by the end of January.

“It’s definitely a good start to the New Year,” said Davis, who is looking forward to living in a home where his movement and daily activities are no longer restricted by the wheelchair he requires.

Davis, a Desert Storm Marine Corps veteran who served from 1990 to 1996, had returned to Camp Lejeune for his second enlistment and additional training when the vehicle he was riding in on base was hit head-on by a Humvee in a wreck that resulted in spinal neuropathy and eventual paralysis in both legs from the knees down.

He is now 100-percent service connected disabled; and much of his time is in a wheelchair, which has made daily tasks from maneuvering narrow hallways to getting out of the bathroom a challenge in his own home.
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