Purple Heart recipient receives new home
Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Marine Specialist Ryan Donnelly, a Purple Heart recipient and veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, with his soon to be wife Tina McGrory at the ground breaking of their new home in Lake Ronkonkoma. (June 6, 2012)
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Six years removed from being critically wounded in Iraq, Marine Sgt. Ryan Donnelly had a homecoming of sorts Wednesday.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for his new home in Lake Ronkonkoma; and the Purple Heart recipient -- who lost a leg during his third deployment -- should be unpacking this November, in time for Veteran's Day.
Donnelly, 28, Newfield High School's 2002 male athlete...
