Marine veteran, former boxer, battling breast cancer
By CHERYL LECESSE
The Salem News
Published: October 31, 2012
PEABODY, Mass. — Peter Devereaux didn’t even know men could get breast cancer.
So when his doctor called to give him the news, Devereaux thought he had called him by mistake.
“I said, ‘Doc, it’s Peter Devereaux,’” he said, thinking his doctor would apologize and hang up.
He didn’t, and within days Devereaux was back at the hospital, getting a bone scan and chest X-ray to see how far the cancer had spread within his body.
A Peabody native and North Andover resident, Devereaux, 50, was diagnosed with stage 3B invasive ductal carcinoma in January 2008. For the past 4½ years, he has been battling the disease, which doctors discovered had spread to his hips, ribs and spine in 2009.
He is one of 82 men who have been diagnosed with male breast cancer believed to have been caused by water contamination at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina.
“It’s the largest cluster ever recorded,” Devereaux said.
read more here
Showing posts with label Peabody MA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peabody MA. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Crowd welcomes injured Marine back to Peabody
October 19, 2011
Home is where the hero is
Crowd welcomes injured Marine back to Peabody
By Alan Burke
Staff Writer
PEABODY — It's not easy to stun a Marine.
But Lance Cpl. P.J. Campbell, 21, was stunned last night as he returned to his Peabody home after months of recovering from a devastating bomb attack in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Roughly 100 people cheered his arrival, including kids from Brown School, veterans, neighbors, city officials and friends.
Campbell was at the end of a long journey, having been driven home from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., by his mother, Joanne, and escorted across Connecticut and Massachusetts by relays of state police.
He wore a wide smile of surprise as his mom pulled up to their Bartholomew Street home, escorted the last leg by two Peabody police cruisers and two fire vehicles, lights flashing and sirens blaring. Another fire engine sat across from the family driveway, lighting the scene.
"What is going on?" Campbell said when asked his reaction to the reception. With a huge grin, he leaped from the vehicle and embraced first his brother Michael and then his father, Paul.
read more here
Home is where the hero is
Crowd welcomes injured Marine back to Peabody
By Alan Burke
Staff Writer
PEABODY — It's not easy to stun a Marine.
But Lance Cpl. P.J. Campbell, 21, was stunned last night as he returned to his Peabody home after months of recovering from a devastating bomb attack in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Roughly 100 people cheered his arrival, including kids from Brown School, veterans, neighbors, city officials and friends.
Campbell was at the end of a long journey, having been driven home from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., by his mother, Joanne, and escorted across Connecticut and Massachusetts by relays of state police.
He wore a wide smile of surprise as his mom pulled up to their Bartholomew Street home, escorted the last leg by two Peabody police cruisers and two fire vehicles, lights flashing and sirens blaring. Another fire engine sat across from the family driveway, lighting the scene.
"What is going on?" Campbell said when asked his reaction to the reception. With a huge grin, he leaped from the vehicle and embraced first his brother Michael and then his father, Paul.
read more here
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Three generations of soldiers mark Veterans Day in Peabody MA
From left, Louis P. Girolimon, Frederick L. Howcroft and Frederick J. Howcroft represent three generations of military service within a single family. Girolimon served in World War II, Frederick L. Howcroft served in the War of Terror, and Frederick J. Howcroft served in Vietnam. Matthew Viglianti/Staff Photographer
A family of heroes: Three generations of soldiers mark Veterans Day in Peabody
By Alan Burke
Staff writer
We all have responsibilities as citizens, but some of us carry more of the weight. And some carry it farther.
Yesterday, three generations of American warriors gathered at Peabody City Hall to mark Veterans Day. Included was Army National Guardsman Frederick L. Howcroft, his father Frederick J. Howcroft and his grandfather Louis Girolimon. Among those remembered was Girolimon's son, Lance Cpl. Louis M. Girolimon, killed in Vietnam on June 10, 1968.
Grandfather Louis, now 83 and a retired Peabody patrolman, began the family's American military tradition in World War II. The son of an Italian immigrant, he went into the Army on graduation from Peabody High School.
"I've been patriotic all my life," he says. "It's something you have to do as a man. ... As long as we uphold our honor, that's the important thing."
A family of heroes: Three generations of soldiers mark Veterans Day in Peabody
By Alan Burke
Staff writer
We all have responsibilities as citizens, but some of us carry more of the weight. And some carry it farther.
Yesterday, three generations of American warriors gathered at Peabody City Hall to mark Veterans Day. Included was Army National Guardsman Frederick L. Howcroft, his father Frederick J. Howcroft and his grandfather Louis Girolimon. Among those remembered was Girolimon's son, Lance Cpl. Louis M. Girolimon, killed in Vietnam on June 10, 1968.
Grandfather Louis, now 83 and a retired Peabody patrolman, began the family's American military tradition in World War II. The son of an Italian immigrant, he went into the Army on graduation from Peabody High School.
"I've been patriotic all my life," he says. "It's something you have to do as a man. ... As long as we uphold our honor, that's the important thing."
go here for more
http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_316221359.html
http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_316221359.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)