Davis touched many lives and left behind a legacy of good works. In good times and bad, he was always involved. John Rossi, a North Merrick Board of Education trustee, met Davis in the wake of the 2003 Mepham High School football scandal. I remember that on a cold night in December 2003, as disturbing revelations continued to unfold about the Mepham football camp, a diverse group of community members gravitated to each other inside a church in Bellmore, ... Emotions spilled in every direction, and someone asked, 'Where are our school board members in all of this' and John Davis stood up and said, 'I'm a school board member.
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That was the first time Rossi met Davis, but he said that from that moment on, Davis was a controlling voice and a leading figure in helping to found Bellmore-Merrick Parents for Change, an organization committed to changing state school-safety laws. JohnJohn Rossi
John inspired me to 'take a run' at the board in North Merrick. 'I think you could do it,' he said, ... John was in my life a short time, but he was like the older brother I always wanted.
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We hoped there came more Japanese airplanes, ... then we can shoot more down. But it never happened.
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there was a saying that goes you could follow the crashed airplanes across the Hump.
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