Army widow's dream becomes reality

TIVERTON, R.I. (WPRI) - Builders helping heroes is an organization that helps military families to turn their fixer upper into a breath taking home.

On Tuesday, the organization helped make a local army widow's dream become a reality. 

Local dignitaries and others come together for a Veterans Day pledge of allegiance outside a newly renovated Tiverton home of the Potts family.

Terri Potts and her son lost their husband and dad, Christopher Potts in Iraq in 2004.

"We were doing little projects at a time as we could. When he got deployed it just kind of stopped, and now for them to come in and finish it up and to make what we started a reality, you know, it's very nice," says Terri Potts.

Because the Potts' dream house never came together after Christopher died volunteers helped make it a reality.

Builders helping heroes a nonprofit organization under the Rhode Island's Builder's Association revamped the home with the help and donations of many others. There is a new drainage system, a new deck and a new inside.

Work started on this home in December of 2005 but everyone involved tells Eyewitness News that it was all worth it.

For more information about the organization go to:

http://ribuilders.org/builders-helping-heroes/