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02-15-07 - LAWTON, OK — Producers with ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and hundreds of friends and neighbors descended Thursday morning on the home of Peggy and Gene Westbrook with the surprise announcement that the family had been selected for an episode of the popular show.
Gene Westbrook, formerly a sergeant in the U.S. Army, was wounded by an enemy mortar April 28, 2004, in a mess hall at an American base in Baghdad, Iraq. He had volunteered for the deployment in order to train Iraqi forces and escaped with a severed vertebra and nerve damage in his right hand.
The Westbrooks suffered another tragedy two years later when the family van careened off an oncoming car and flipped over a culvert into a ditch. Gene suffered a stroke, and his 9-year-old son James was paralyzed below the hip.
02-18-07: LAWTON, OK - Six University of Oklahoma football players traded in their red helmets for white hard hats Sunday morning to help with “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s” construction of Peggy and Gene Westbrook’s dream home... OU basketball standouts Courtney and Ashley Paris also made a surprise visit in hopes of lending a strong Sooner flavor to what has become a statewide extravaganza overnight. Hundreds of volunteer subcontractors have poured in from all parts of Oklahoma.
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