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Army vet gets new home in Sound Beach
Long Island Home Builders Care, a nonprofit arm of the Long Island Builders Institute, has built its first home for a returning veteran, Omar Domenech, in Sound Beach. Videojournalist: Erin Geismar (Nov. 10, 2011) (November 10, 2011 5:11 PM)
In June, Omar Domenech looked at an empty parcel of land in Sound Beach and he couldn’t imagine seeing a house there, much less one he would own.
“You really have to have an eye for it,” he said. “I couldn’t see where they were going to plant my house.”
On Thursday, Domenech, 36, his wife Angela, 29, and their children Anastasia, Ashley, and little Omar, were handed the keys to their...
