John Rossi Quotes (8 Quotes)

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.

I thought the war would be over in six months, ... if I knew it would last as it did, I would be going back to the navy.

There is real trouble in the sector. We're looking at a pretty tepid market this year.

We hoped there came more Japanese airplanes, ... then we can shoot more down. But it never happened.

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. John

there was a saying that goes you could follow the crashed airplanes across the Hump.

I don't have time to think about fears, ... I have to concentrate. I flew over 700 trips in China, it's hard to say which one was more dangerous than the other.

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.