Wounded Afghanistan Veteran Gets New Home

Military family gets place to call home
Center Daily
By Clayton Over
November 15, 2014

UNIVERSITY PARK — Any serviceman or woman, past or present, will talk of how good it feels to come home after a tour of duty.

Nicholas Snook, an Army sergeant recently discharged from active duty, and his family now have a home of their own to go to. The Snooks were presented with a house Saturday during a ceremony at Pegula Ice Arena. After moving every couple of years in the service, Snook said a permanent home is welcomed.

“The main thing is stability,” he said. “It’s a place to call home.”

Snook, of Dover, served as a military policeman and deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan in 2010. He was awarded the Purple Heart during that tour. The home was presented to the family by Operation Homefront, a nonprofit organization that provides services to veterans, including awarding homes to selected veterans, said Pete Stinson, Operation Homefront’s executive director for Pennsylvania. The group has provided around 10 homes to veterans in Pennsylvania in the last two years, he said.
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