>Did your wife's grandfather come through it?

Yes, he did. We got a good laugh out of him because they had a group of WWII vets speak at a school to small children. When it came to grandpa's turn, part of his speech was "most of the men were dead before they were even out of the water" and other graphic and horrible things that probably shouldn't have been said considering the audience. I wonder how those little kids slept that night.