Stories: Who We Have Lost

To infinity and beyond

Who did you lose to Covid 19? Mike Mantell

Watching the Disney show Buzz Light Year with my grandchildren, I was reminded of that one Christmas that Mike bought all his daughters a Buzz Light Year stuffed toy. We all looked at each other that morning, thinking ‘what are you crazy?’ They were teenagers at the time. But Buzz’s famous line in the movie was “to infinity and beyond” — which to Mike meant “reach for the stars.” You can do and achieve anything in this world. As a father of five daughters, he wanted to instill in them that any woman can do what a man can do. As he would say, “break the glass ceiling.”

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