Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Both Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione were born in 1998, the year that President Bill Clinton was impeached over the Monica Lewinsky scandal and three years before 9/11. They were raised less than 250 miles apart: Penny on Long Island, and Mangione in Towson, Md., the only sons to loving families. Penny is the middle child of three sisters, and Mangione has two younger sisters. Both grew up into athletic and diligent young men. Mangione’s upbringing was more privileged than Penny’s, and he was more academically successful. He attended a prestigious Baltimore prep school that cost his parents $40,000 a year, graduating as valedictorian before earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania, where his passion was for devising complex computer games to simulate his fantasies. … Penny grew up in a less wealthy environment without the advantages that Mangione enjoyed. He attended a public school, West Islip High, where he excelled at sports before joining the Marines, serving as a squadron leader on two overseas deployments.” (12/11/24)