Forty-two years ago at age sixteen, my father left his hometown of Alia, Sicily bound for the United States with the hope of fulfilling his dream of making a better life for himself.

His first job here in America was with his uncle Phil's meat company doing everything from shoveling carcass to truck driving to chasing cattle.

With six years working at the meat company, my father saved enough money to buy his own truck and start his own trucking company which was one of several companies he would establish through the years. More