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Wounded vet first in Md. to benefit from housing program

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When David Battle left his family in Fort Stewart, Ga., in May 2007 to serve in Iraq, he never expected he would return with only one limb.

Almost a year after he was injured in Baghdad, Battle will become the first triple amputee and first Maryland recipient of a house built in Pasadena by Homes For Our Troops, a nonprofit that finds volunteers to construct houses for wounded veterans.

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