This Aid Fund Also 'Restores Faith'

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This Aid Fund Also 'Restores Faith'
Richmond Times - Dispatch | November 20, 2007

In October 2006, Brian Pearce was blown up by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

He was flown to the United States with brain injuries, traumatized, nearly blind and deaf.

The Army staff sergeant has been in medical treatment and rehab since.

Leaving their two children with a friend in Alaska, his wife, Angie Pearce, went first to Washington, where her husband was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a month and a half, then came to Richmond when he was moved to McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

"The military's been good to take care of us, but there was still not enough to take care of everything," she said.

It's a big financial burden, even with military allowances, for families to uproot themselves to be by their loved one's side, Angie Pearce said. The children reached Virginia in mid-December, and the family now lives in Mechanicsville to be near McGuire's specialized care.


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