In the second week of October, this year, we presented two fully-customized all-terrain wheelchairs to two American heroes who are both named Anthony: Army Master Sergeant Anthony Luciano and Marine Corps Major Anthony Maggert.
Army MSG Anthony Luciano is a Green Beret of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He served 17 years including five combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and four additional deployments to South and Central America. He was wounded in combat, and received a Purple Heart in addition to a Bronze Star for heroism.
Anthony lives with his wife Emily and their three little boys, ages 1, 3, and 5, on their farm in Florida. In April of 2022 he suffered a horrific tree-cutting accident which left him paralyzed from the neck down. He has been relentlessly fighting for healing ever since, and has regained function in his arms.
We presented him with an all-terrain wheelchair to help him get around his farm. He’s looking forward to using it to share with his sons his love of hunting and fishing. Anthony remains on active duty and has high hopes of being able to return to service one day.
Major Anthony Maggert served 4 years in the Marine Corps and 19 years in the Army including five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011, contaminated water in Afghanistan caused a wound on his leg to become catastrophically infected. After years of treatment and surgeries, he ultimately lost the leg in 2015. We provided him with an all-terrain wheelchair to increase his mobility in the outdoors.
Anthony retired in 2018 and now lives with his wife Heather in Alabama where he runs a small sausage business. In 2019, he unexpectedly met General Colin Powell on the side of the road and helped him change a flat tire. When interviewed by CBS news about this incident he said, “You have to do good all the time. Even when you don’t think people are looking.”
Anthony’s daughter, Ashley, received a Freedom Alliance scholarship this year in honor of her father’s service. She is a freshman at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University studying biological sciences with plans of becoming a pediatrician.
It is our great honor at Freedom Alliance to make a difference in the lives of wounded veterans like Anthony Luciano and Anthony Maggert. Our work is only made possible by people like you who are grateful for the sacrifices these two men made and who won’t let veterans like them be left behind and forgotten.
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