8/10/2009 Boundless Playground Extreme Home Makeover
The U.S. Air Force rescued James Terpenning as a young orphan from Vietnam during Operation Babylift in 1975, and they returned Saturday, Aug. 1, to help build his family's new home in what might be called Operation Extreme Makeover.
"It's an honor to be here," said Lt. Gen. Jack Hudson, commander of the Aerospace Systems Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where Terpenning, 40, is a civilian computer specialist.
Terpening, who uses a wheelchair after a childhood bout with polio, learned Thursday that he had won a free new home from the ABC TV reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" to better accommodate his wife Shannon, four small children and his adopted brother, Joseph, who also uses a wheelchair because of his cerebral palsy.
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