RALEIGH -- A disabled veteran and his family now have a home of their own in Wake County.

The Boziks are the first recipients of a donated house as part of "Operation Coming Home."

Sgt. Joey Bozik lost both his legs and an arm in a roadside bomb attack in 2004. He said Oct. 27 is a day that will always be circled on his calendar.

"It'll always be the best and the worst day of my life," Joey Bozik said. "The dichotomy of it is I've gained so much perspective and friends and families and other things, but I've also lost a lot of my mobility."

Mainly, it's Joey Bozik's "Alive Day" – the day he came out of his coma in 2004 after a roadside bomb attack in Iraq. Now, four years later, it's also the day the Boziks get the key to their new home.

Back in May, the property was just an empty lot, but donations of time, effort, and money have made it into a home.

The house and land were donated by Wake County builders and developers. And it's designed to accommodate the needs of a triple amputee.

"One or two people just can't do what was done here today," Gail Bozik, Joey's mother, said. "It took a lot of people and a lot of effort. And, I'm from North Carolina, so Joey has come home."

Joey Bozik was also made an honorary Wake County sheriff's deputy.

Officials decided to make Oct. 27, 2008, "Joey and Jayme Bozik" day in Fuquay-Varina. But that's not the main reason they'll celebrate it for years to come.

"His 'Alive Day' is a day that we always choose to celebrate his life," Jayme Bozik, Joey's wife, said. "And regardless of whether or not we would have been moving into a house today, that's how we would have continued to celebrate it. And, this is just icing on the cake."

Operation Coming Home is a collaboration of home builders in the Triangle and a group of real estate and construction veterans. Organizers said they'd like to see this program expand nationwide.