At 58, Vietnam Vet from Jersey City is bound for Iraq

Philip Lore can\’t escape the fact that he looks like a kindly grandfather. He\’s got a round face, a snow-white mustache and twinkling green eyes.

It turns out the 58-year-old New Jersey Army National Guard staff sergeant is a grandfather — six times over. Pity the new soldier who calls him grandpa, though.

Lore reacts to that word in an explosive flash, putting his face an inch from the offender\’s face, his eyes bulging, tobacco-flecked spittle flying and screaming out: \”Grandpa? The last guy who called me that got a bullet!\”