Joe Lombardo

Joe Lombardo is the father of Dixon J. Lombardo and a character in the semi-canon roleplay Blood at the Windsor.
== Biography ==
Joe was born in Chicago on June 21st, 1948, to an abusive father and a depressed mother. When he was 5 his mom died in an apparent suicide. He was abused by his father until he was 16 when he fought his dad off, proving to his dad he can’t be beaten anymore. When he turned 18, he moved to Detroit to escape his father. He then joined the United States Army to try and find some purpose and money. He served in Vietnam from 1968 to 1971 because he was injured in combat. His squad was ambushed by Vietnamese guerilla fighters, and his whole team died. Joe was stabbed in the stomach by a female Vietcong soldier, which in turn Joe bashed the Guerilla’s head in with a rock. Joe hid in an abandoned Vietcong tunnel for 14 hours, until he was eventually found. He was brought back to the States where he found work as a mechanic. He lived in the Windsor Hotel for a while before finding a woman at a party named Hera. He would start dating Hera a few weeks after meeting her. He eventually tried to shoot himself after a night of drinking, but Hera talked him down. He and Hera moved to New York for work, and they inevitably got married. Joe and Hera had a Child named Dixon Joel Lombardo. At the age of 67, Joe was diagnosed with stage 3 Cancer of the Throat, which inevitably caused his death on April 8th, 2015.
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