Hang on... You read that his retirement left him with 94% of his old income... then you did some loose maths to inflate the two amounts to today's money... the

Hang on... You read that his retirement left him with 94% of his old income... then you did some loose maths to inflate the two amounts to today's money... then you wrote a conclusion to your comment saying that he took a hit of 95%. Errr, what? Thanks for giving a rough idea of what his money was in modern terms, but your "long story short" was actually a longer version of what he had already said, and somehow less accurate.