Andy would get emotional talking about his infantry experience as a Marinein the Korean War. One time, he recalled, he and two other soldiers were carrying a wounded man on a litter when they realized that a North Korean gun crew had them in their sights.
The Koreans had an anti-tank weapon trained on them and could have killed the Americans instantly. But instead, Andy said, the Koreans waved them on, apparently because they were carrying a wounded man and were completely vulnerable.
Andy had been a Marion County sheriff's deputy before getting his law degree, and he talked about the importance of showing mercy to people who needed a break in life.
He liked to quote Edward Wallis Hoch on the foibles of ordinary people:
"There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us, to talk about the rest of us."
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2013/12/28/former-indiana-congressman-andrew-jacobs-81-dies/4234677/
The Koreans had an anti-tank weapon trained on them and could have killed the Americans instantly. But instead, Andy said, the Koreans waved them on, apparently because they were carrying a wounded man and were completely vulnerable.
Andy had been a Marion County sheriff's deputy before getting his law degree, and he talked about the importance of showing mercy to people who needed a break in life.
He liked to quote Edward Wallis Hoch on the foibles of ordinary people:
"There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us, to talk about the rest of us."
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2013/12/28/former-indiana-congressman-andrew-jacobs-81-dies/4234677/
