[vetvetdoug]

The Last Confederate Widow in Mississippi was asked why she married a man in his 60’s when she was in her late teens and her reply was that the man was a gentleman and gave her respect and loved her. She said the boys around her age didn't have near the class that this man did. They had several children of which the last passed away just two years ago.

[a fool in paradise]

I thought I read once that they did it for the military pensions.