OEF-OIF Veteran's Family Gets Home Makeover

Young disabled vet's family gets new home
KATU News
By Emily Sinovic
Published: Apr 26, 2014
Dozens of volunteers give a disabled veteran and his young family a fresh start with a total home remodel.

Danie Ray suffers from PTSD, and he has injuries from two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan that leave him unable to tackle the mounting repairs their southeast Portland home desperately needed. His wife, Deleana Ray, said "... a roadside bomb and messed his wrist up, shoulder, back, knee issues and there's PTSD.... it can cause your head to hurt, your heart to race like you're panicking, like a panic attack."

Deleana is a full-time teacher and couldn't handle the deteriorating home repairs on her own either, nor did the couple have the money to take care of everything from electrical problems, to a roof that wasn't reliable. That changed when dozens of volunteers from Rebuilding Together Portland and Pods of Portland came out to take care of everything.
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