Retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean Sexton, who lost his right leg after an injury during the global war on terror, has a specially adapted home in Star built with widened doorframes, roll-in showers and grab bars designed around his needs. The home came together through a partnership between the nonprofit Helping a Hero, Bass Pro Shops and homebuilder Lennar, and Sexton received it alongside his 9-year-old daughter.
Sexton served nine years in the Air Force and deployed twice during the global war on terrorism, according to the Idaho Statesman. He was injured while carrying roughly 250 pounds of equipment in the Middle East, an injury that eventually required amputation of his right leg. He medically separated from the Air Force in 2017 and settled in Meridian. KTVB reported Monday that Sexton had been gifted the fully adapted home in Star, while the Idaho Statesman had previously described the Star project as still under construction and expected to be completed this fall.
Sexton said the injury cost him his leg, and he has described how the adapted home lets him provide for himself and reduces the burden of needing help, per the seed facts behind KTVB’s reporting. The home, located in Star’s Heritage Heights community, was delivered through Lennar’s partnership with Helping a Hero and built with Lennar Homes of Boise.
A Nationwide Push Reaches Idaho
The project is part of Helping a Hero’s 100 Homes Challenge, a nationwide effort to build specially adapted houses for severely wounded post-9/11 veterans, as the station’s report and related coverage from wcti12.com both describe. The challenge was launched by Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, and the retailer has pledged to cover 25% of the cost of each home built through it, the Idaho Statesman reports. Sexton’s home is expected to be the 48th built under the challenge, per the same account…