by Helping A Hero | Jun 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
June 3, 2015 WSB-TV – Atlanta SMYRNA, Ga. — A metro Atlanta Army specialist is enjoying his first day in his new home, thanks to volunteers. “This is awesome. We never expected anything like this. It’s amazing,” said Spc. Charles Fuller as he...
by Helping A Hero | Jun 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
June 3, 2015 ATLANTA -He went to Iraq for our country, but Specialist Chuck Fuller came home a different man and suffers PTSD and needs a cane to get around. More than a year of planning went into this home, hundreds of volunteers, tens of thousands of donations all...
by Helping A Hero | May 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
May 15, 2015 Adkins Elementary School students and staff celebrated Armed Forces Day by welcoming a military veteran who knows the meaning of service, Staff Sgt. Johnnie Yellock II. Staff Sgt. Yellock, who retired from the U.S. Air Force after sustaining leg injuries...
by Helping A Hero | May 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
May 5, 2015 A 450-strong crowd filed into the Hyatt Regency hotel downtown to attend the Helping a Hero Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon. Helping A Hero is a nonprofit that provides specially adapted homes for wounded veterans; the event honored volunteers who help...
by Helping A Hero | Mar 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
March 20, 2015 Helping A Hero and Parker Built Homes to Break Ground on Adapted Home for Wounded Veteran TAHLEQUAH, Okla., March 17, 2015 – On March 24, Mayor Jason Nichols, the Cherokee Nation, and Oklahoma State Senator (Retired) Jim Wilson will join Helping A Hero...
by Helping A Hero | Feb 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
February 20, 2015 LANTANA, TX – – Helping a Hero broke ground Thursday on a four-bedroom handicap accessible home for wounded warrior SSgt (Ret) Johnnie Yellock, USAF. Yellock was a combat controller for the Air Force; he was wounded by an I.E.D. in Afghanistan in...