Triple Amputee Marine Corporal Todd Love Comes Home

Marine Corporal Todd Love was welcomed into a $500,000 Douglasville home built just for him on Monday.

Love lost both his legs and his left arm in 2010, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He stepped on an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Afghanistan.

Patch blogger John A Delves wrote in a post in February 2013 about Love, who is a Georgia native and third-generation Marine.

Delves attended the initial celebration on the grounds where the new home would be located and wrote Love “slung himself up onto the seat of a backhoe and operated the equipment to knock down the first trees to prepare for excavation of the home’s foundation.”

The custom-built home is located on 10 acres of wooded land outside Douglasville.

Dozens joined Love as the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the Sinise Foundation, Home Depot and others unveiled the finished home, AJC reports.

“My level of injury is by no means a measurement for how much of a hero I am,” Love told the AJC. “All the guys that I was with, they’re truly the heroes of the day when I got hurt. I would be dead if it weren’t for them. I had several of them tell me that they thought I was dead when they saw me. Despite that, they worked on me anyway and lucky they did. I’ve lived a beautiful life since then, and it’s only just begun.”