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It was during a four-month assignment in the hospital that 84-year-old Korean War adept Felix Lopez abstruse his home was burglarized.
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“They took everything, I beggarly everything,” the Visalia man says. “My pillow, my shoes, my stereo arrangement – they took everything.”
Burglars alike took his two dogs – German shepherds that neighbors were agriculture while he was away.
Since he got ailing in April, added than 100 volunteers from Habitat for Humanity, The Home Depot Foundation, AMVETS, Rotary, and Naval Air Station Lemoore accept rallied to fix up the veteran’s one-bedroom home and alter his baseborn appliances.
Words cannot call what I feel appropriate now because of what these guys are doing.
Felix Lopez
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“I was stunned,” Lopez says of acquirements that bodies capital to advice him. “I couldn’t accept it. It was unreal. They told me they would alter everything.”
Projects accommodate installing new floors in the bedroom, active allowance and dining room, doors, windows, a toilet, bathtub and aegis system; agriculture his yard; and architecture a wheelchair access to alter stairs arch to his house. Lopez now uses a ambler and wheelchair to get around.
Korean War adept Felix Lopez, right, pets his new dog Loba as his brother Jim Lopez watches at Felix Lopez’s home in Visalia on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Loba was acquired to alter two dogs that were baseborn Felix Lopez’s home while he was in the hospital.
CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
He was ailing afterwards falling while accomplishing backyard work. His abode was burglarized anon after. He was appear from the hospital in September and has been active with his brother, Jim, additionally a veteran, in Bakersfield.
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Lopez should be able to acknowledgment home mid-December acknowledgment to the volunteers’ aliment to his house. His dogs are still missing, but a acquaintance gave Lopez a new German attend about a ages ago that he called “Loba.”
“Words cannot call what I feel appropriate now because of what these guys are doing,” Lopez says. “They’re activity aloft and above their agency and they are not charging me a cent.”
On Thursday, a Home Depot aggregation additionally presented Lopez with new accoutrement to alter those that were stolen, and afraid a new Marine Corps and American flags on the flagpole alfresco his house. Lopez fought in the Korean War as a Marine Corps rifleman. He became a artisan afterwards the war and retired at age 62.
It’s agitative to be allotment of a activity area so abounding bodies appear calm to advice a veteran, but additionally to body a stronger association for all of us.
Dirk Holkeboer
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Curtis Justice, abundance administrator of the Home Depot in Tulare, says the assignment is a way to accord aback to veterans “for aggregate they’ve done for us.”
Tulare Home Depot administrator Curtis Justice, right, works with added aggregation advisers on installing new attic at the home of Korean War adept Felix Lopez in Visalia on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.
CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
Dirk Holkeboer, controlling administrator of Habitat for Humanity of Tulare/Kings Counties, is aflame about what the aggregation of volunteers has accomplished.
“It’s agitative to be allotment of a activity area so abounding bodies appear calm to advice a veteran,” Holkeboer says, “but additionally to body a stronger association for all of us.”
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