Sunday, March 23, 2008

Family of injured soldier gets relief

Family of injured soldier gets relief
By Nita Birmingham (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Grace BeahmThe Post and Courier
A photograph of Shaun Robey as he receives his Purple Heart at Walter Reed Hospital sits on his mother Becky Robeys table at her home in Summerville. Becky Robey spent months at Walter Reed in Washington DC helping her son after he lost his leg from an IED blast.
How to help
Anyone interested in joining a local chapter of A Hero's Welcome may call Tim Taylor at 843-276-2840.
More information on the organization is available at www.aheros-welcome.org.


SUMMERVILLE — Ahttp://www.charleston.net/news/2008/mar/23/family_injured_soldier_gets_relief/ businessman inspired by a television interview and the plight of a local wounded soldier's family wants to start a chapter of a nonprofit organization that supports troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tim Taylor first heard about the group A Hero's Welcome while watching footage of a soldier's homecoming on CNN's 'The Glenn Beck Program' in November.
It inspired the former Army

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