A Purple Heart recipient from being wounded in a leg at Okinawa. An
infection set in and the leg was later amputated.
A self-proclaimed "health nut" but a chain-smoker, he quit smoking on
11/29/69 at the time of his lung-cancer diagnosis. He said he
preferred a cancer death over "turning into a fat neurotic".
He was a nightclub MC at Sharkey's Lounge in Kenosha, WI.