Community comes together for wounded Marine and his family

Special Christmas for wounded marine’s family
By Paul Kandarian
Globe Correspondent
December 25, 2011


Marine Lance Corporal Nicholas J. Eufrazio of Plymouth will celebrate Christmas today, with his family by his side, at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa, where he is being treated for traumatic brain injury as the result of a grenade attack on Nov. 21, 2010, in Afghanistan.

Employees at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth where his father, Mark Eufrazio, has worked as a plumber for the past 13 years, raised thousands of dollars in recent weeks to help the family make the trip.

“Within a couple of weeks, they raised something like $9,000,’’ Mark Eufrazio said. “We didn’t expect anything like that; people just joined together to help us get to our son during Christmas. It’s really something to see so many people who care.’’

He said Jordan Hospital workers are always raising money for causes for colleagues and those outside the hospital, because “it’s true to their heart. They just want to help people.’’

A group of volunteers started organizing events to raise money to help the Eufrazio family. Physicians Ronald Bardawill and Paul Vigna of Plymouth Pathology Associates donated an iPad2 to be raffled off, and Plymouth firefighter Robert MacKinnon kicked in a surf casting rod and reel. Employees made gift baskets, area businesses donated items for raffles, and Plymouth South High School, which Nicholas Eufrazio attended and where he played football, sold raffle tickets.
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