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Wounded NC soldier gets new house
Posted: 10.27.2008 at 9:09 AM
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FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (AP) -- A veterans group will present Sgt. Joey Bozik the keys to his new house four years to the day he was wounded in Iraq.

Bozik was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq. The 26-year-old 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper lost both legs and his right arm when an anti-tank mine exploded under his Humvee.

Paratroopers from Fort Bragg will parachute in Monday with the keys to his new home in Fuquay-Varina. The house was built by Operation Coming Home, a group of military veterans who are now real estate agents and home builders. All the material and labor was donated.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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