Houston, Texas (CNN) -- Alexander Reyes' boyhood dream of a military career ended when he was hit by an improvised explosive device during a patrol two years ago in Baghdad.

"Laying in that hospital bed ... sometimes I felt I'd rather [have] died," Reyes said. "My life came to a complete halt."

Reyes sustained severe blast injuries that led to his medical discharge; he's on 100 percent medical disability. Like many soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, Reyes, now 24, found the transition to civilian life difficult.

But he and a handful of other injured veterans are getting help from what may seem an unlikely source: a custom home builder in Houston, Texas.

Dan Wallrath recently presented Reyes and his wife with an unexpected gift: a home built especially for them, mortgage-free.

"Thank you. That's all I can say," Elizabeth Reyes said, sobbing and clutching her stunned husband's arm as Wallrath surprised them with the house.

For Wallrath, giving wounded veterans a place to call home is his way of saying thanks. Since 2005, his organization has built four houses. Five more are under construction, and he's expanding his idea into a national campaign called Operation Finally Home.

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Wallrath spent 30 years making upscale clients' dream houses a reality. But he found a new mission in 2005 when he met with Steve Schulz about a very different type of project.

Schulz's 20-year old son, a U.S. Marine, had been gravely injured in Iraq. Schulz desperately needed to remodel his house to accommodate his son's wheelchair.

Answer the following questions:
1. who was injured by an explosive device?
2. who helped him?
3. how?
4. how long has he been doing that?
5. where does he reside?
6. how did Reyes feel after the injury?
7. where was he injured?
8. is he on medical disablity?
9. how did Elizabeth feel about the gift?
10. who is she?
11. does Wallrath have other plans?
12. what is one of them?
13. any others?
14. did he make different types of projects?
15. what was it?
16. for whom?
17. what happened to him?
1. Alexander Reyes
2. Dan Wallrath
3. gave him a free home
4. Since 2005
5. Houston
6. he'd rather have died
7. Baghdad
8. yes
9. thankful
10. Alexander's wife
11. yes
12. Operation Finally Home
13. building five more homes
14. yes
15. making a home wheelchair accessible
16. a 20-year old Marine
17. injured in Iraq