I'd always known my family was a little eccentric- not just my immediate family, either. But only after hearing the stories told by my great uncle did I realize just how peculiar and fantastic my lineage is. Most of my grand-uncles, although almost entirely Irish/Welsh and not a bit Asian, speak fluent Japanese. One, a career military officer, has his Doctorate in Oriental medicine. The other proposed to his wife on their third date, for reasons still yet unknown. On the ranch which I played at as a small child, there were two laboratories and an underground acupuncture clinic, completely unknown to me. We flew fighters in WWII, married and d