I am married to an "unusual" lady. I realize "unusual" is an ambiguous word but I use it intentionally because she is unusual in every sense of the word. This lady is a combination of everything exceptional and everything quirky. She is intelligent, funny, loving, loyal and a little bit off the wall. What a girl.
We met in the Navy during WW2. She was serving as a WAVE and I met her through another WAVE who I happened to know from home. There is no way to explain what this girl was doing in the service, thousands of miles from home except that we were intended to find each other. You talk about "home girls" and you are defining her. She had never been more than a few miles from home before in her entire life! Taking a streetcar downtown to St. Louis was an adventure.
Lucky for me that she somehow found the courage to enlist to serve her country. It seeemed unlikely that a New Jersey boy and a Webster Groves, MO. girl could ever eventually be married and produce 10 beaautiful people who in turn would give them the gift of 29 even more beautiful grandchildren, but they did!
Now, after 65 years of wedded "bliss", there seems nothing left to top all that. With 65 years of history, which anyone else would envy, all we can do is to hope our children will be as fortunate and happy as we have been. The world is different now but it was also different for us than it had been for our parents. That thought gives me hope that "different" doesn't neccessarily mean "worse" but that whatever comes, they will cope and find ways to be happy.
God bless my wife, children and grandchildren and keep them happy and safe in a free land.
We met in the Navy during WW2. She was serving as a WAVE and I met her through another WAVE who I happened to know from home. There is no way to explain what this girl was doing in the service, thousands of miles from home except that we were intended to find each other. You talk about "home girls" and you are defining her. She had never been more than a few miles from home before in her entire life! Taking a streetcar downtown to St. Louis was an adventure.
Lucky for me that she somehow found the courage to enlist to serve her country. It seeemed unlikely that a New Jersey boy and a Webster Groves, MO. girl could ever eventually be married and produce 10 beaautiful people who in turn would give them the gift of 29 even more beautiful grandchildren, but they did!
Now, after 65 years of wedded "bliss", there seems nothing left to top all that. With 65 years of history, which anyone else would envy, all we can do is to hope our children will be as fortunate and happy as we have been. The world is different now but it was also different for us than it had been for our parents. That thought gives me hope that "different" doesn't neccessarily mean "worse" but that whatever comes, they will cope and find ways to be happy.
God bless my wife, children and grandchildren and keep them happy and safe in a free land.
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