"As usual, we were screwing around in the neighborhood. Usually nothing good would come from what we were doing.  Frankie Palmeri and I were on the roof of Frankie's house. Frankie was climbing down and I was still on the roof. As he was climbing down, I loosened his grip on the gutter and he fell, but while falling he punched through the kitchen window, slicing open his hand.  So the blood was pretty apparent and we could see the ligaments in his hand. We all knew this was serious. No one else's parents were home, but Mr. Kautz was home. He was so cool under fire, he didn't get excited, didn't yell at us yet, just wrapped Frankie's hand in a towel and took off for the emergency room. I'll never forget how he didn't lose his head, while we were all really scared and losing ours. So the moral of the story is to remain calm, think, relax and take the emotion out of what is happening and get done whatever it is you need to do. Others are depending on you. I learned that from your Dad."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Robert F. Polito Jr.