By Nick Sambides Jr.
The last time Paul House saw his son, he was dreaming, and the happy encounter sadly was brief. In his dream, Joel House walked up, sat down next to his father, hugged him and, with his arm draped around his father’s shoulder, said, “Dad, I don’t get to see you often enough.”
A Protestant of deep faith, House believes his son is with God, eight years after an improvised explosive device killed the 22-year-old U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division sergeant in Taji, Iraq.
“When you lose somebody, you never lose that contact,” the 59-year-old House said recently. “Joel is always in my heart, he is always on my mind, and how he lived as a soldier and as a son is a great influence on my life. This would not be happening without losing him.”
“This” is the ongoing construction of an 80-by-90-foot lodge for House in the Woods, A 
Military and Family Retreat. Several construction crews are working as volunteers to build the lodge at an estimated cost of about $1.1 million. Construction began last fall.
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