Blessed to be a Navy Brat of many miles traveled and many different lands lived. Exotic, as I am, to be both Japanese and Polish. A Father, whom threatened to go to the Russian Embassy to claim Nationality just to marry my Mother, while serving overseas in Japan. Two young twenty somethings, whom caught the attention of the Japanese Mayor of Sasebo, married them both in his private office hidden behind a bar. My Father, the first American in Japan, to be married by a Japanese Mayor.