Spent Saturday at the Uncle Keith’s watching the Giants-Pats Superbowl [Giants won again. =-)] and scanning family photos. I love going through these photos and remembering these people or learning about them when they were young. Lots of stories here.
But this first batch is all dedicated to the greatest man I ever knew. My Grandpa, Tony Mangino.
There are 3 really important men that had and still have a huge influence on me. My Grandpa, my Dad and my Uncle Keith. I’ll get into Dad and Uncle Keith later but Grandpa is the pinnacle. Since I was a kid and more-so as I have grown up, he is the archetype of the man I want to be. Not to say he was perfect, that’s not what a role model or leader is about, but he makes me want to be better than I am just through being who he was.
With the exception of my Mom, who is a whole other kettle of greatness, I don’t hold myself up on a daily basis to a brighter light than Grandpa.
I miss him something awful.