Military Veteran Bouncing Back from Disability with Determination to 'Get Out and Try Everything'

Foxborough resident Andres Burgos was one of 12 disabled military veterans to enjoy a day at Fenway Park on Aug. 7, which included taking batting practice on the field and tickets to that night's game. The event was courtesy of CVS Caremark.

Foxborough resident and United States Marines Corps veteran Andres Burgos vividly remembers everything about the morning of June 29, 2011. “I was coming back from visiting my friends in Springfield,” Burgos recalled. “I was on my motorcycle – the roads were wet - it had just finished raining. I was enjoying a nice, beautiful ride home [to Marlboro].” Burgos, who served in the US Marines Corps from 1999-2007, mostly in infantry, was knocked off his motorcycle by a hit-and-run driver but it was what happened after the initial accident that changed his life forever. “I was trying to crawl off the road,” Burgos said. “There was nothing wrong with me except for the initial shock and blunt trauma from falling off the bike.” But as Burgos was …

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