UT San Diego
By Teri Figueroa
NOV. 6, 2014
War-injured Marine Joshua Lopez, 25, walks with son Joshua Jr., and his wife Jennifer carries son Jalen, at left, as they unload belongings from a U-Haul truck Thursday. The family moved into a temporary apartment in Oceanside, and will stay until Saturday, when they move into a mortgage-free home in San Marcos.
Charlie Neuman
SAN MARCOS — Camp Pendleton Marine Cpl. Josh Lopez died — flat-lined more than four minutes, he said — in the first hours after he stepped on a homemade bomb during a 2012 firefight in Afghanistan.
The explosion threw him 20 feet in the air. He shattered his pelvis, broke his back. He would eventually lose his right leg below the knee.
About two weeks ago — 30 months, 40 surgeries, many skin grafts, and hours of rehab later — Lopez finished his treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.
The 25-year-old is finally coming home. Not to his hometown of Lancaster, north of Los Angeles, but to newly remodeled home in San Marcos.
The home — worth upward of $400,000 — will come to him mortgage-free from Building Homes for Heroes, a nonprofit group that gives away homes across the country to injured service members.
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