Thanks so much everyone!!

About buttoning the jacket, I usually do.

If you don't, when you strike in the pipes half the jacket often gets pulled up into your armpit, which looks sloppy.

About my father-in-law, we're all having a tough time with his passing.

My admiration for him verged on hero-worship. What an interesting, amazing guy. An Infantry Officer in WWII, fought in New Guinea and the Liberation of the Phillipines. Schooled in Switzerland, spoke German and French well. Worked in Army Intel as a linguist during the Korean war when he learned to speak Russian and Norwegian. Was recruited by the CIA but they passed on him when they learned that he was engaged to be married.

Played semipro and Minor League pro baseball in the 1940's. Had an at-bat against Sachel Paige.

Once out of the Army he spent a long career as an aerospace engineer.

And through it all lived the very model of "the Christian life": mild, genteel, modest, thoughtful, spiritual. It was difficult sometimes to learn anything about his life, but over the years I pried this and that fact out of him. I never did find out how he won his Bronze Star... he wouldn't say anything more than "I was just doing my job" or "I just did something stupid".