BUDA, Texas — A U.S. Marine Corps veteran received the keys to a mortgage-free home in Buda last week through a partnership between Bank of America and the Military Warriors Support Foundation.
Sgt. Luis Valadez, who was born in Mexico and raised in Fort Worth, served as a field artillery cannoneer from 2004 to 2009. He deployed to Japan and Iraq, where he was wounded in combat and earned the Combat Action Ribbon and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
He and his wife and two children will make Buda their new home.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran received the keys to a mortgage-free home in Buda last week through a partnership between Bank of America and the Military Warriors Support Foundation. (Photo: The Monument Group)
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The home presentation took place Thursday as part of Bank of America’s Homes4WoundedHeroes program, which partners with the Military Warriors Support Foundation to donate mortgage-free properties to veterans injured in service to the country.
Valadez trained at San Diego, Camp Pendleton and Fort Sill before being assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment in Hawaii.
Since 2012, Bank of America has donated more than 6,500 residential properties, with more than 2,700 going to nonprofits supporting military service members and their families, according to the bank.
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The Military Warriors Support Foundation works with financial institutions to support its broader Homes4Heroes program for veterans nationwide.