Extreme Makeover: Home Edition   -  About the Episode

When PFC Lori Piestewa was in Iraq, she told her roommate and best friend, PFC Jessica Lynch, that her dream was to return to her home in Tuba City, Arizona and build her parents a house to which they could retire. But in March 2003, Lori lost her life, becoming the first American woman killed in the Iraq war. Lori died while trying to save the lives of her friends, Jessica Lynch and Shoshannah Johnson, as she navigated her Humvee through gunfire and debris when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The design team from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and homebuilder Shea Homes help restore Lori's dream by building her surviving family a new house in just seven days in Flagstaff, Arizona, on land donated by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.