It is a Monday afternoon when Beth Phillips walks into the little house on a corner in Westminster, the 77th wounded soldier’s home she will take on, and her eyes grow wide.
There is very little inside it. “OK,” she murmurs to herself.
Former Army Spc. Michael Ortiz, 24, limps over to greet her, shakes her hand and gives her a little hug as his wife, April, 21, looks on.
It is incredible to the couple that she is even here, and they do not know what to say. Embarrassed might be the proper word here. Phillips waves it all away and tells them they should get to work.
Over the coming week, she will completely furnish the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home at no cost to the couple. Doing such a thing is Phillips’ life work now.
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