Quadruple amputee Sgt. John Peck gets help from groups

Groups team up to build home for wounded Marine in Virginia
By JEFF BRANSCOME
The Free Lance-Star
Fredericksburg, Va.
Published: July 20, 2012

Sgt. John Peck

BUILDING FOR AMERICA'S BRAVEST

Sgt. John Peck says he remembers everything.

An explosion sent him flying, and he was in excruciating pain. He recalls saying that he didn't want to die.

"I could see four guys working on me, so I knew something was pretty messed up," Peck said.

He blacked out and was on a stretcher near a helicopter when he woke up. A helicopter medic told Peck he was going to be OK, but that he'd be asleep for a little bit.

He woke up about two months later at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

Peck, 26, who is in the U.S. Marine Corps, lost his arms and legs after stepping on an improvised explosive devise while serving in Afghanistan in 2010.

He's being rewarded for his sacrifice with a new $500,000 home in Spotsylvania County's Estates of Chancellorsville. He and some 50 supporters attended a contract-signing ceremony Thursday at the vacant lot where his house will be built. The land is not far from where the Civil War raged in 1863.

Building for America's Bravest — a partnership with the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and the Gary Sinise Foundation — made the project possible.read more here