Posted on 09/28/2013 4:27:38 PM PDT by matt04
He may have served two tours in Afghanistan protecting the freedom of his nation, but double-Bronze Star veteran David Wood has returned home only to battle ungrateful NIMBYS.
Gifted a charitable home through the efforts of his local congressman, Aaron Schock for his wartime efforts, Wood, who has lost the hearing in one ear was told that the property plans for his family's house were opposed by his potential neighbors.
Indeed, an unidentified cabal of neighbors in the Peoria suburb of Morton, Illinois, has clubbed together to oppose his wooden home saying quite clearly, not in my backyard.
The father of three, aged between eight-years and two-months is shocked, especially because the signatories of the petition have not come forward publicly.
'We were taken aback,' said 28-year-old Wood. 'At first, my wife and I were really hurt. We just felt they really don’t know us as a family.'
Wood, who still serves in the National Guard, currently works as full time as a warehouse manager and struggled to find a home for his wife, Julie and young family when he returned from his last tour.
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Thanks matt04.
Just as when you are accused of a crime, the petitioners names on this petition should be public.
Calling this vet a lowlife isn’t very nice.
sure, but since I didn’t call him a lowlife I really don’t have to worry about it now do I
LOL
Too late as far as i would be concerned...
I’d rather live in a trailer park than among these a-holes.
I don’t understand how they have any grounds to get his house delayed?
Of course property values were of zero consequence when these moonbats pulled the D lever across the board last Nov.
Brick houses huh?
sure......
The Peoria Journal-Star looked into the matter of covenants, but could not find any that required homes in the neightborhood to be built of brick
Believe it or not, I would actually be in agreement with the home being built of brick, but I’m not sure how much more it would cost than a wooden home. Furthermore, are there hidden motives behind this petition? Is this a liberal neighborhood? Maybe they would be fine with Noam Chomsky building a wooden home on that lot.
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