I have several material items with family or close friend heritage in my gatherings, but the finest gift was the mentoring & love these people did with me along the way forming and shaping the person I am. What they gave & passed down in this regard was priceless!

The material items are just reminders of these great people that I'll always cherish. Many of them are simple things like a GM service award my grandfather earned for 34 years of service as a Chevrolet mechanic, I also have a pair of his coveralls from the dealership to go along with it. This means a bunch to me simply because he was a great guy, but he was also one of my mechanical mentors who set me on the path of being a 44-year career mechanic myself. I used several of his tools I inherited throughout my career and still have them & use them now that I'm retired as well.

I could go on with listing the many items I have including some guns, but you would probably get bored with reading the list.