10 News Ohio
By Jeff Valin
Saturday December 20, 2014
MARYSVILLE, Ohio - United States Army veteran Jason Gibson will be home for Christmas.
Not just any home, but a brand-new, mortgage-free home designed to accommodate his needs. The retired staff sergeant lost both his legs and his left index finger to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2012.
"We stopped for something and I knelt down right on top of one," Gibson told 10TV Saturday, moments after receiving the keys to the house specially built for him in Marysville. He'll move in with his wife, Kara, and newborn daughter, Quinn, right away, from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where standard issue-style housing has proved a challenge and a worry.
"I don't want to be alone in the house with my daughter because I'm too worried about either falling or hitting the wall or something, if I'm holding her," he explained about his Wright-Patterson environs.
The family's new home is a result of many donations of labor and material, coordinated by "Homes For Our Troops," a charity dedicated to providing homes customized to ease the lives of wounded veterans.
As Gibson explains, the halls and doorways of his new home are wider than those in a typical home, allowing easier mobility for him and his wheelchair. But that's not all.
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