Home Depot honors Purple Heart veterans

JACKSON, Tenn. — A local home improvement store took on a service project to honor veterans every time the enter the store.

The Home Depot on Vann Drive now has special parking spots for Purple Heart veterans. The four spots were marked and painted this week. The Wounded Warrior Project provided the signs.

“Home Depot as a company has 35,000 veterans that work for us,” store manager John Ducrest said. “Here in our store, 10 percent of our associates are veterans. So we wanted to make sure that we recognize them for what they’ve done for our country.”

There are more than 3.8 million wounded veterans in the United States.