Your mother and father lived a beautiful life, and worked hard to make it so. What a blessing to have witnessed their trajectories. Thank you for sharing their quintessentially American story from a time and way of life now all but outlawed. My deepest condolences in your loss.
Much as I attempted to get things right, I was off by a year on Pearl Harbor. Pearl was attacked on December 7th, 1941, not 1940. Therefore their first daughter was born before the war started.
Thanks to mcmuffin for prompting me to correct the error.