Cinderella Carpet One in Salinas is proud to be a
part of a new partnership with the Building
for America's Bravest program. Building for America’s Bravest is a program
of The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers
Foundation, in proud partnership with the Gary Sinise Foundation, which
was developed to build smart homes for catastrophically injured service
members.
As the
program’s official flooring provider, Carpet One Floor & Home will be
supplying flooring and installation for the construction of these smart home.
There are currently 55 service members on the list to receive smart homes – 6
smart homes have already been built; there are 49 homes scheduled to be built
over the next 3 years.
We are
excited to get started with this new Carpet One Cares initiative. And we’re
honored to have our manufacturer partner Mohawk
working side-by-side with us. They generously agreed to supply the product for
these projects.
The first
home Carpet One Floor & Home will be working on is in Tampa, FL. Sgt.
Michael Nicholson is the brave individual receiving this new home.
On July 6,
2011, Sgt. Nicholson was on combat foot patrol when he was injured by an IED in
Afghanistan, causing him to lose both legs and his left arm and suffer a brain
injury.
Eight months
after arriving at the National Naval Medical Center, Sgt. Michael Nicholson
came home to Tampa, Florida greeted by thousands of supporters. At his church,
he spoke to the crowd, “I just want to ask for one more thing; please pray for
the guys still in Afghanistan right now and for the soldiers, sailors, airmen
and marines recovering in Bethesda, San Antonio and Balboa. Pray for the ones
who didn’t make it back.”
After riding
in the motorcade from Tampa Airport to his church, which included over 100
Patriot Guard Riders, he said, “That still blows my mind. I never expected all
those people to show up. I am still awestruck about all of this. They have done
so much for me, I wish I could do something for them.”
At a time
when he was struggling with his own life-altering injuries, Michael was not
asking anything for himself, only thinking of his fellow military who are still
in need of prayers and support, and for all those who never returned... only
wondering what he could do for others.
Learn more about Sgt. Michael Nicholson and the other
brave individuals that the Building for America’s Bravest program is helping at
ourbravest.org.
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