Today is my Mom and Dad's 63rd wedding anniversary. The year was 1945 and my Dad was a Staff Sargent in the United States Marine Corps serving in the Pacific war zone. He was home on furlough. "The bride wore a white street length dress with navy blue accessories and a corsage of pink rosebuds and white sweet peas." They were married in the rectory of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The war was a few months shy of being over; a few months before Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed ushering in the atomic age. I was born at the end of the following year as part of the "Baby Boom".
I wish I had a picture of my parents on their wedding day, but if any were taken, none have survived to this time. The picture I posted must have been right around that time. Dad passed away in 2001.
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WOW!!!
ReplyDeleteLife is full circle...they were young in that picture....
You just made it
ReplyDelete1946 was the earliest
of the Boomers
Happy days indeed =)
ReplyDeleteWell, God bless them. People nowadays, with fancy weddings and thousand dollar dresses, forget it is not the wedding, it is the marriage. I am sorry your dad is not physically with you, but I believe he is there nonetheless.
ReplyDeletewow...thats a long time...god bless them
ReplyDeleteTom, don't rub it in!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. I was thinking also Bennett about how little they spent on the wedding and how long they lived happily together. It reminds us its not things that are important, its people.