Homes For Our Troops Announces Completion of a Specially Adapted Home for Severely Wounded North Carolina Veteran

**Media Advisory**

Homes For Our Troops Announces Completion of a Specially Adapted Home for Severely Wounded North Carolina Veteran.

Homes For Our Troops President and Founder, John Gonsalves, will hold a press conference at the at 2215 Caracara Drive, (Fairfield Harbor) New Bern, NC on October 6, 2007 at 1:00 PM to announce the completion of this building project.

New Bern, NC - Homes For Our Troops, a non-profit organization that provides specially adapted homes for severely wounded veterans, announced the completion of a home building project for a severely wounded US Army soldier, SGT Eric Edmundson and his family.

SGT. Eric Edmundson was seriously injured by an IED on Oct. 2nd, 2005. Injuries sustained in the blast were shrapnel wounds to the right leg and abdomen, with the shrapnel wounds to the abdomen requiring the removal of his spleen, fracture to the T4 and T5 vertebrae, fracture of the fibula head in right leg. While awaiting transport to Germany, Eric went into cardiac arrest. Because of the time needed to revive Eric and lack of oxygen to his brain, he sustained an anoxic brain injury.

John Gonsalves, President and Founder of Homes For Our Troops, and local volunteers in the community of New Bern, would like to extend an invitation to your organization to share in this event with SGT Edmundson, his wife and their child.

Eric's home is one of five projects that Homes For Our Troops has undertaken in NC. Work is also complete on barrier-free homes in Fayetteville and Roxboro, the Waxhaw project is well underway and Homes For Our Troops broke ground on it's Lumberton project in September.

Who: Homes For Our Troops, Inc., a Taunton, MA based non-profit organization that (at no cost to the veterans they serve) provides specially adaptive housing to severely wounded veterans returning from the War on Terror: www.homesforourtroops.org

SGT Eric Edmundson and members of the local community:

http://www.homesforourtroops.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Eric_Edmundson

What: Press Conference by Homes for Our Troops, President and Founder, John Gonsalves, and members of the local community to announce the completion of the home building project for SGT Edmundson and his family.

When: Saturday October 6, 2007 at 1:00pm

Where: 2215 Caracara Drive, (Fairfield Harbor) New Bern, NC

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