THURMONT, Md. – Adam Kisielewski helps design programs and robots that allow doctors to treat patients around the world as part of Fort Detrick’s telemedicine research and Military Amputee Research Program, but finishing off the basement in his home was a bit beyond his skills.

“I had done this type of work in high school, but I had forgotten a lot of it,” Kisielewski said.

So he set out to finish off his basement. He got the framing for the walls up, but he decided he needed help with the drywall and acoustical ceiling tiles.

He contacted Cynthia McGrew at Operation Second Chance, an organization that assists wounded service men and women at Walter Reed Hospital along with providing additional assistance to returning war veterans and their families. Kisielewski, a marine, had become familiar with the organization because he had lost an arm and leg in Iraq.

Kisielewski said McGrew “has been tons and tons of help for » full story