Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Wounded Marine story inspires readers, bikers

Marine story inspires readers, bikers
By Peter Gelzinis
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

When Jeanne Donaghey of Medford read in Sunday’s Herald about Evan Reichenthal, a 21-year-old Marine trying to cope with the horrible wounds he suffered in Afghanistan, she thought of her own nephew.

When she visualized Lance Cpl. Reichenthal trying to climb two flights of stairs in his mother’s Princeton home with a prosthetic leg so he could use the bathroom, Donaghey thought of how her sister’s family has struggled to accommodate a child with special needs.

“The story touched me, because I know just how hard it can be to get up and down a flight of stairs,” Donaghey said yesterday. “I’ve seen what my family has had to go through just to make sure that my nephew can deal with stairs in a two-family house. So I can imagine what it must be like for such a brave young man.”
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