Running to help save lives

By HeRnesTO GALdAMeZ hgaldamez@liherald.com

“Go Richard! Go Richard! We love you!” That’s what Atlantic Beach resident Richard Brodsky heard while he was running in the Boston Marathon last month.

The 70-year-old is no stranger to marathon running, but everywhere he goes, he is reminded of why he runs. “Just because you have HIV and brain cancer doesn’t mean your life is over,” he said.

Brodsky, a former architect, was 45 in 1997, when he received an HIV-positive diagnosis. He had to tell his wife, Jodi Brodsky, about the diagnosis and admit to her that he is bisexual.

RICHARd fourth and fifth from left, have provided food, shelter, clothing and medical attention for people in Kenya since his foundation was founded in 2004.

“It was the worst day of my

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