I was always very polite to my wife's dad (when we were dating), but one time at a party, some friend of her family's.....this loudmouth bigshot, told me, "If you ever make this girl cry, they'll find your body parts in six counties".

Prick.

I whispered to him if he didn't apologize I was going to break his nose in front of his family and everyone at the party. I was a little more violent then and probably would have......he must have sensed it and apologized. Never even told my wife that.

I never met him . . . I would have love to . . . He was a cool guy from what I've heard. He was at Iwo Jima and saw the raising of the flag. He worked extensivly for the Japanese War Crimes Trials.

Now I would have loved to hear some of those stories, but he never talked about it much, either . . .

mid-seventies?

Her dad sounded like a great guy though.

Andy, that was a pretty strange, grisly thing for that loudmouth to say.

That old dog!! LOL!