[Vampyr]

My grandfather faught in World War II. He lived through the enire ordeal, although he had some near death experiances.

At one point, he was stationed in an area of southern Europe, and he was a on a ship at sea. One day, while on the ship, an enemy plane flew over and dropped a bomb down a smoke stack. My grandfather managed to escape, but there were many of the men on board who were not so lucky. (Sorry if that was a bit fuzzy, but he never really wanted to go into a lot of detail. You can imagine why.)

At another point, him and one of his buddies were at the ocean (not sure where) and they were swimming. This was at a point in his life when he could care less if he lived or not, and him and his friend swam out as far as they could. Finally, they decided to come back. But while out there, he had came in contact with a jelly fish and got its poison in his eyes. He was completely blind for a few hours, and his friend had to lead him back into shore in the middle of the night while blind.