Long Island Marine vet who delivered ‘2 million’ toys to needy kids keeps going despite stroke

Fuente: New York Post

A compassionate Marine is still running a Long Island holiday toy drive for needy kids after three decades — even as he contends with the after-effects of a debilitating stroke.   Chuck Kilbride, a retired USMC Major and Long Island native who has led Nassau County’s Toys For Tots since the 1990s, showed up to help hand out toys to children from Hempstead at Miller’s Ale House in Levittown despite his health issues on Wednesday. Kilbride, 73, suffered a stroke last October that left him struggling with aphasia — a debilitating brain disorder that impairs the ability to speak, understand, read and write — but the vet hasn’t let it slow him down.