Torpy: ‘I’ve shot better men than you’

You can’t make up stories like the reality that was Henriek Szczukowski, a Polish Jew who often remarked on his good luck for leaving his homeland before Hitler arrived.

He grew up to be Herbert Shafer, a Georgia lawyer who barely reached 5 feet but was aggressively unafraid of judges, prosecutors or even his clients, who included Mafiosos.

Herb was a constitutional rights zealot, a serial letter-to-the-editor writer and a lawyer ready to throw down with authorities. He figured that losing family members to the Nazi regime fomented such strong feelings.