The Tunnel to Towers Foundation Delivers Smart Home to Injured Oklahoma Air Force Veteran

Tunnel to Towers recently published an article sharing the story of SrA Williams and his smart home, which was built by Homes by Taber as quoted below: 

"In a private ceremony with his family, United States Air Force Senior Airman Ted “TJ” Williams Jr.’s son cut a ceremonial ribbon outside of his family’s new mortgage-free smart home in Mustang, Oklahoma.  

Checkout the News9 video here. 

Tunnel to TowerFoundation’s Smart Home Program builds specially adapted, mortgage-free smart homes that help our most catastrophically injured veterans and first responders reclaim their day-to-day independence. 

"I'm just so thankful to have a home that I can function in...it takes a burden off my wife, a burden off my boys, I know it's going to be hard for them to see me struggle throughout life, this is going to limit that…and help me a better father to them,” said SrA Williams.  

In 2010, SrA Williams enlisted in the Air Force to serve his country and further his education.  

On November 29, 2012, SrA Williams was on duty with his security forces team patrolling a nuclear weapons silo in Montana. The Humvee he was traveling in wrecked and rolled over, leaving SrA Williams in a medically induced coma with a broken C4-C6 vertebrae in his neck, resulting in quadriplegia with no function from the chest down. 

“I thought this was just a dream in the beginning. I had a buddy in a pilot group I FaceTime with made up of spinal cord injury veterans throughout the country. He said 'Dude, fill out the application...send it in. I had the same feelings you did, my injury wasn't good enough, I don't deserve special treatment, a mortgage-free home, smart home, and just hearing that conversation from one of my other fellow veterans, I put in my application.” said SrA Williams, “I got a phone call, from New York a month later.  It was Tunnel to Towers, saying congratulations on your mortgage-free smart home and thank you and your family for your sacrifice.”   
 
SrA Williams’ smart home features wider paved walkways and motorized doors that open and close on their own with the push of a button. These automatic doors will give SrA Williams time to get into and out of his home.  

The entire home is designed with zero thresholds, wider doors, hallways, and a large master bathroom, so SrA Williams can access every room in the house, and safely navigate from one end of the home to the other in his wheelchair.  

The homes’ lights, temperature, security, and sound system can be controlled remotely via a smartphone app or touch screens throughout the house.  

During the ceremony, Homes by Taber, donated $25,000 to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation to help the Foundation continue its mission.  

For more information and to support our mission of building homes for America's heroes, visit T2T.org. Join us in making a difference by donating just $11 per month. 

About the Tunnel to Towers Foundation 

Born from the tragedy of 9/11, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation carries out its mission to “do good” by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and building specially adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. Tunnel to Towers is also committed to eradicating veteran homelessness and helping America Never Forget September 11, 2001.  

Visit T2T.org to learn more, and follow Tunnel to Towers on Facebook, X, and Instagram."