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Latest home will be built right here in Aggieland
This home will be build in the beautiful community of King Oaks,
and now it's my distinct pleasure to announce
this home is going to Sgt. Monte Bernardo.
Operation Finally Home has a vision,
but without generous people, without amazing individuals to kind of
help come together and donate their time and supplies,
the Mission Statement really reaches nowhere. And so it's amazing how Southstar
Communities
and King Oaks has come together and has said listen up to Operation Finally Home,
we're gonna partner with you, we're gonna work together and we're gonna find a way to
build
a beautiful home for an amazing service member who is given so much to this
country.
It just shows that a lot of people
can come together, work together for the common sense of just trying to take care of
our service members.
Operation Finally Home, they're very genuine organization.
They go out of their way to find out who you are,
and do their best to give you what you need.
When they take on a family or a
person or what have you, they dedicate everything
to that family. Kind of like, they take you into their family.
They are our, you know, our fifth, sixth, seventh
you know, however many families we have now, they are part of that family.
They devote everything they have to
their cause, and it's really a great organization.
It's been extremely overwhelming, the amount of
support, and how genuine people are out here,
it's truly amazing. It's been definitely a
really amazing
experience, and you know,
getting to meet our new neighbors and getting to see
our house for the first time. It's just really an amazing experience. I know one of the
biggest things when you're coming home from
being injured, and especially being in the hospital, is you wonder how you gonna
be accepted, how you're gonna be embraced
amongst a community, and the great thing about King Oaks is that everybody
came out to show Monte and
you know his daughter and his girlfriend a lot of love, and a lot of support,
and all I kept hearing was, you know, "if you need anything, I'm just down the street, call me,
you know, don't hesitate to call me, I'll be here in a few minutes," and people
underestimate how important that is,
and the impact that's going to have on him. It's a beautiful thing to see a bunch of
people come out
and support Monte, and it's great that King Oaks has essentially
established that sort of environment here. What I saw was friendships being
developed, what I saw was
you know, people kinda just seeing old friends, and just kind of having that sense
of community, and that sense of
kind of a neighborhood feel. So if you don't feel like you have
a nice neighborhood feel wherever you live, then maybe should think about
come visiting Monte.
Thank you to everybody. It's been an amazing experience
We're so excited for Monte...