hahahaha!

I got another for ya DD.

Colombo soldier/capo/acting boss Joseph (Little Joey) Brancato, of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was a renowned hero in WWII. He was awarded nearly every medal they can award a guy.

In fact, he lost his leg in the war while saving his captain and the entire platoon from the Germans. The way I heard the story the Germans had his platoon pinned down, many American GI's had been slaughtered already, and they were getting picked off little by little. Although it was a suicide mission, Little Joey went out and navigated through gunfire and was able to knock out a German machine-gun nest. He supposedly single-handedly manned the nest afterwards and turned the guns on the other germans, whacking them all out.

But he lost one of his legs while doing it from the multiple gunshots he had sustained. He went the rest of his life like that.

When he stood before a Judge on a shylock case in Nassau County years later, the judge felt compelled to put him on probation because of his war record. Even the prosecutor didn't have the balls to go against that.