My grandfather had been a Police Lieutenant and his obituary actually had an error of him retiring in 1971 and I know this because the Mobile Press-Register in 1998, they used to have a "Yesterday's News Section" when we actually had real newspapers, and they'd bring up a snippet of an old story And so in 1998 for the "25 years ago" section one day was the story from 1973 of when my grandfather retired. It was a big enough of a story it made the paper then and they quoted it 25 years later. In large part because he almost ran for Sheriff in 1974, opted for this race instead, and not making the Sheriff race gave him time to get more involved in PVA. But he became paralyzed and so for two years he was the # 2 in command at the Police Academy. I am bringing this up because he retired at the police rank of Lieutenant, he in fact was over the Narcotics and Vice Squad when he became paralyzed, a program he had to let first time offenders avoid jail time actually got a UPI write up in 1970. But his military rank with the Air Force was some kind of Sergeant Major, but he spent several years in the press referred to as Lieutenant and so I don't know if I should alter this to reflect that at the time, everyone knew him as "Lieutenant Romagnano" and that he forewent the Sheriff's race for this. Purvis, I was told by kin, was not going to make the race against Bridges if grandpa ran, but he didn't, and Purvis defeated Bridges in the '74 election