Salisbury veteran gets handicap ramp built for free

A reminder that there’s still good people in this world, that’s what world war 2 veteran and former prison of war Benjamin Lewis said the Chesapeake Housing Mission did for him when they decided to build him a completely new handicap ramp.

Lewis, who was captured at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, had a ramp that was in a state of disrepair and not up to code. He told 47 ABC that the Chesapeake Housing Mission approached him a few weeks ago and offered to build him a new ramp free of charge.

“There’s nothing like it, it’s just they’re good people. All that you hear is bad news on the television and everything, but that’s just what you call good people,” Lewis said.

The Chesapeake Housing Mission in a non-profit, which works off donations, supplied the material and the career Salisbury firefighters are doing the actual construction.

They tell 47 ABC that the ramp should be done by Tuesday.