Marine Cpl. Andrew DelRossi Biggio on mission of the heart

Fellow Marine on duty for wounded warrior
By Peter Gelzinis
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Photo by John Wilcox UPHILL BATTLE: Injured veteran Evan Reichenthal he is joined by Marine Cpl. Andrew DelRossi Biggio, who is helping him raise funds for renovations that will ease his plight.

A year ago, shortly before he was deployed to Afghanistan, Marine Cpl. Andrew DelRossi Biggio completed a different kind of mission: a mission of the heart.

All of 23, this Winthrop native organized and led some 400 motorcyclists on a charity ride to benefit Vincent Mannion-Brodeur, also 23, a paratrooper who’d suffered a horrific brain injury in Iraq.

The funds raised that April day allowed Jeff Brodeur, a retired postal worker, to pay for the handicapped modifications that enabled him to care for his son at home.

As for Andrew Biggio, going to war didn’t distract him from searching for another wounded warrior he could assist. In between patrols, Biggio scoured Google and Facebook until he came upon the story of Evan Reichenthal, a 21-year-old Marine from Princeton.
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