Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
Home for Our Troops president and CEO, Tom Landwermeyer, left, and medical retired Marine Sergeant Kyle Garcia raise the American flag as Garcia’s wife, Crystal, and attendees look on during the special ceremony for their newly adapted home donated by the national nonprofit Home for Our Troops in Byron, Calif., on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Sgt.
Life would soon get a lost easier though for Garcia, his wife Crystal and young son Louis, when he learned he would receive a new adapted custom home in East Contra Costa County through Homes for Our Troops, a national nonprofit that supports severely injured soldiers. He credits friends with the Wounded Warrior Project for encouraging him to apply for a HFOT home.
J.R. Wilson, president of the Delta Veterans Group, was there with others on Saturday and several weeks before that when he and other volunteers laid down sod and planted trees and bushes to landscape the yard of the rural home. Other volunteers have been building the four-bedroom house for the past year.
Medical retired Marine Sergeant Kyle Garcia speaks during a special ceremony honoring Garcia at his newly adapted home donated by the national nonprofit Home for Our Troops in Byron, Calif., on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Sgt. Garcia lost his left leg and sustained severe damage to his right leg when he stepped on an improvised explosive device during his third deployment to Afghanistan in 2011.
“This is going to pretty much allow us to live here in the Bay Area,” he said of his new home. “And hopefully, when the time comes, I can afford to send my son to college on my own.” Medical retired Marine Sergeant Kyle Garcia, center, embraces the Quilt of Valor presented by Joan McClure, left, and her husband Jack McClure, right, during a special ceremony honoring Garcia at his newly adapted home donated by the national nonprofit Home for Our Troops in Byron, Calif., on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Sgt. Garcia lost his left leg and sustained severe damage to his right leg when he stepped on an improvised explosive device during his third deployment to Afghanistan in 2011.
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