Honoring Our Own
The Healing of Love I Received From Dr. Bob Irwin
Fred Boyles Guest Contributor I take a stand in my life with this statement: "Keeping masculinity alive, pure and intact, the dark and the light so that we can give our best to women and children and leave this planet better than we found it.”...
Dr. Robert Irwin’s Last Circle Up
Dr. Robert Irwin, a leader of men originating in the SouthWest Region of Mentor Discover Inspire, passed away December 3, 2019 of complications due to cancer. An orthopedic surgery specialist living in Whittier, California, he graduated from Loma Linda School of...
My Adventure with Cancer – We are all Worthy of Being Healthy
By Bob IrwinOriginally published May 2015 It all started when I saw my cardiologist on February 5, 2015. It would be a journey that would be my adventure through cancer and through health. On this February day, the doctor noted that two kidney function tests were...
An Ode to Doug Ernst (1954 – 2018)
By David HorobinTeammate, friend and honorary family member On December 11, longtime Western Region MDI member Doug Ernst died in his Napa home from complications from Lou Gehrig’s Disease with his family at his side. He leaves a legacy as a family leader who...
Scott Alling – In Honor of the Man
David Turk Guest Writer Scott Alling died in late May 2018 of cancer, leaving behind a wife, two beautiful young daughters and a formidable legacy. It wouldn’t be cool for me to talk about Alling's participation in MDI without speaking of Scott the man. Some men like...
Charles Wilton, First Ever Canadian Wheelchair Boxer
This story about MDI member Charles Wilton of the Canadian Region is a republished article originally appearing in MakeAChamp.com. My name is Charles Wilton, and I've been a wheelchair boxer for for past three years. I have just contracted my first official fight in...
Mike Villanueva – A Tribute For One Of Our Own
Jim Ellis Editor, Legacy Magazine On May 3, 2017 we lost one of our own. Mike Villanueva – long-time member of MDI in the Southwest Region, in the San Diego Men’s Division – passed away in his San Diego home. More will emerge on the cause of death. But no matter the...
Take a Stand at Standing Rock
MDI men take stands for the important things in life. For Jorge Rosado, that is to defend Mother Earth, which he notes provides life to us all. Rosado – of the Southwest Region, Legacy Kings Division, and team Eastsiders – is a veteran of the US armed forces and has...
Shout Out to the Men
There is a man in your life – perhaps in the present, perhaps from the past – who helped you become the man you are today. There is appreciation; there is esteem; there is respect. In this edition of the Legacy Magazine, having moved just beyond Thanksgiving and...
Mentor Discover Inspire – The Rare Place Where Men are Honored
James Anthony Ellis Southwest Region Where else do you find this? I tell you where you find this: when you die. When they pack your old carcass in ice or stuff that ole body of yours in a cooled drawer for a bit, before they either dig a hole to lower you, or...