My wife told me I should have added I was a WWII overseas vet so that you wouldn’t get the idea we were spring chickens.
Tell your wife I said Hey!
One of my mother’s friends, recently deceased unfortunately, in her retirement community, was a World War II veteran who had married a woman from Sweden. She predeceased him, but just last year when I was visiting, he was talking at supper about how tall and graceful and blonde she was.