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Local veteran to receive custom-built house from Homes for Our Troops
Friends and supporters of medically retired Army Ranger Matthew Watters (center) stand for the National Anthem at the Homes for our Troops kickoff event Sept. 14 at the Effingham County Career Academy. The nonprofit Homes for Our Troops will build a home in Effingham County for Watters, who lost a leg and suffered other injuries in 2003 in Iraq. (Photos by Jeff Whitten/Effingham Herald.)
