Disabled veteran and family get revamped home for the holidays

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) -- Going a small way is a big step for Staff Sgt. Scott Petrie.

The training prepares you for it but unfortunately sometimes you do get hurt," he said of his 19.5 years of military service.

At the end of the Marine's last tour in Afghanistan, Petrie got shot in the arm and the leg and received shrapnel wounds in the other leg. He knows what it means to sacrifice for the country.

I can't feel my foot, he said. I have my 100-percent disability.

After his injury, doctors told Scott and his wife Tiffany that they wouldn't be able to have kids. They used his down time to adopt Lelani and Nino. Two months later, they got pregnant on their own and had now-two-year-old Sawyer.

Now they say his injury was a blessing in disguise.

The father of three moved his growing family from North Carolina to James Island to be closer to the VA Medical Center in Charleston.

But the home wasn't perfect.

Lennar Homes of Charleston teamed with Operation Homefront to give the Petries their dream home.

The construction company put in all new floors and paved the gravel walkway out back, making it more accessible to the growing family and its four dogs.

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Disabled veteran and family get revamped home for the holidays