Meadville Tribune
Earl Corp
September 5, 2014
Brother
Veterans gather for a prayer in the parking lot of Mizner’s Funeral Home prior to saddling up for Pittsburgh to escort Marine Sgt. Brandon Bizzarro on his last ride home Friday night.
There are several words that can describe Brandon Bizzarro — Marine sergeant, biker, Meadville Area Senior High School graduate and son. But Friday night the word that kept coming up over and over was brother. This was the main theme of the approximately 25 veterans on motorcycles who came to Mizner Funeral Home in Meadville to escort Brandon’s family to Pittsburgh to pick up the 22-year-old’s remains and bring him back for his last ride to Meadville.
Bizzarro, an active duty Marine from the Meadville-Saegertown area, was the victim of on a hit-and-run accident while riding his prized GSXR Suzuki 750 motorcycle, Carmen, in California last Thursday.
Cochranton’s Rob Preston was a Marine dog handler in Vietnam, and serves as commander of the Veterans of the Vietnam War Post 52. There was no doubt why he was there for the late-night round trip.
“It’s a brother, we’ve got to take care of our brothers,” Preston said. “If we don’t take care of our brothers we’re not worth anything.”
Greg Hardy was an Army veteran with the 82nd Airborne Division and was riding to Pittsburgh because, “If it was me I’d want the same,” he said.
Navy Corpsman and Iraq veteran Brian Byers helped organize the motorcade which included a police escort, the bikes, a limousine with the immediate family, a hearse and other family and friends in assorted vehicles for the trip to Pittsburgh International Airport. The convoy left Mizner’s with a Meadville police escort, and Vernon Township police picked up the duties at Smock Bridge to the Interstate 79 exit. In Grove City, the convoy would be joined by more veterans on bikes paying their respects.
“This is what we do for fallen comrades,” Byers said. “And I know the family.”
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