Alfanosgirl, that was a beautiful post about John Gotti.

I don't purport to judge him as a person. That's not my place.

When I said that he was better off going legitimate, that was my way of saying that he probably wasn't meant to be a wiseguy, he was meant to be legit, like a family man.

You can't help but feel for Gotti when you heard him complain that being Italian held his kind back and that was his excuse for going the illegal route. Maybe when he was coming up that was true, but probably no longer true by the time he became the self appointed boss of the Gambinos.