Nonagenarian Pirate Spends His Days Sending Thousands of Bootleg DVDs to Troops Overseas Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/27/12 12:26PM Hyman Strachman is a 92-year-old WWII vet from Long Island who has spent nearly a decade supporting the troops in his own special way: By sending them free-of-charge bootleg DVDs of first-run films by the box-load.