Mother of evicted, wounded soldier, has his property

Mother of evicted soldier has his property
Army Times
By Joe Gould
Staff writer Posted : Friday Oct 12, 2012

The landlord who evicted a hospitalized soldier, and was accused of selling and trashing the soldier’s belongings, has returned nearly all of the property to the soldier’s mother, he says.

Tommy Atha said he has fulfilled his promise to return the belongings of Sgt. Mark Porrazzo of Fort Hood, Texas. Atha came under fire after Porrazzo’s platoon leader posted an open letter about the situation on the pro-soldier Guardian of Valor website.

“We could have sold everything in there, but I have never done that with any of my tenants, and I will not do that with any of my tenants,” Atha, a retired Marine, said in an interview with Army Times on Thursday. “I maintained his privacy and I maintained his goods.”

Mark Porrazzo, 32, of 31st Chemical Company, 2nd Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Battalion, was on a training exercise with his unit at Yakima Training Center, Wash., when he was hospitalized in May, his platoon leader told Army Times in August.

Porrazzo, a 15-year Army veteran who has been deployed to Iraq four times, was initially hospitalized at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., for reasons his family has asked to keep private. Porrazzo was then transferred to Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
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