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To: left that other site; ConorMacNessa; SandRat; BIGLOOK; mylife; Jet Jaguar; MeekMom; ...
I was with him when he went Home. I didn't take his wedding ring until then...my Mom wears it now. They "talk" all the time, and my Mom is doing well. They would have been married 70 years in August. And add their high school years....long time.

I left Camp Claiborne, Louisiana on about the 27th of August 1943, by train, on a 14 day Furlough without travel time to get married. (He wasn't yet 21 so his Mom had to sign for him.) After a great Wedding, a Wonderful, but short honeymoon at Big Bear Lake, California, I left her living with her folks in Long Beach, California and returned to Camp Claiborne until approximately the 26th or 27th of December 1943. About 300 of us were shipped, via train, to Camp Shenango, PA, an Overseas Replacement Center.

32 posted on 03/27/2013 7:00:30 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Wonderful...Keep those letters and excerpts coming.

I will read them all tomorrow morning, as I have a nasty sinus headache, and must go to bed now. But It am looking forward to a wonderful read in the morning!

Love
You, Dear FRiend.
((((HUGS))))


35 posted on 03/27/2013 7:04:03 PM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

very handsome couple! See where Ma gets her cuteness gene from! :)))


36 posted on 03/27/2013 7:05:41 PM PDT by MeekMom (He is risen, no longer in the grave. Death could not hold Him. Behold Christ the risen Lord!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

70 years is a long time.
As you know, my Step Grandad also served in the CBI.
I wonder if they knew each other or paths crossed.


39 posted on 03/27/2013 7:47:18 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
What a stunningly beautiful couple, Kathy!

"Happy, Happy, Happy pair!
None but the Brave,
None but the Brave,
None but the Brave deserve the Fair!"



Where are the survivors of the massacre at Benghazi? The silence of the Obama Regime on this question is deafening!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

45 posted on 03/27/2013 8:19:10 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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