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 by 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 to Never Forget September 11, 2001.

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TYLER R. IUBELT

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Army • Line of Duty Death: November 12, 2016

Private First-Class Tyler R Iubelt was assigned to the US Army’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas. On November 12, 2016, a suicide bomber targeted Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. The blast killed Iubelt, another service member, and two American contractors. More than a dozen others were hurt in the blast.

Iubelt enlisted in the Army after graduating Illinois’ Pinckneyville High School in 2015. He had served for about a year before he was killed. He was just 20 years of age.

He left behind his wife, Shelby and their daughter, Violet.

The Iubelt family received a mortgage-free home in Du Quoin, Illinois through the Gold Star Family program on September 21, 2018.

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