Marine Corps veteran left homeless gets new tiny house for Christmas Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail December 29, 2020 A Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor hangs from a Christmas tree at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 20, 2017. (Sgt. Matthew J. Bragg/Marine Corps) Christmas, the season of perpetual hope, was three months distant when Hoy M. Young Jr.’s home caught fire and burned to the ground.
While hope might have been a hard sell for Young at the time, hands and hearts were already joining forces to lighten the U.S. Marine Corps veteran’s burden. Young managed to escape the Sept. 22 fire with his life and little more than a lungful of smoke.
Volunteers scope out the area where the foundation to Hoy Youngâs new tiny house will be built. Youngâs house was destroyed by fire in September. The volunteers wanted to get the Marine Corps veteranâs new home ready to occupy by Christmas.
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