I saved this photograph and a couple of earlier ones to make a point. Ann and I discussed this recently. Mom often told us that one of the reasons she married dad was that his parents paid for her train ticket down to Florida. She felt obliged to marry him--a very bad justification for getting married. However, he was a military officer. The two of them did travel about the country with assignments in states and at bases she'd never been to before. For her, being born and raised in rural Kansas, even though she had lived in Phoenix and L.A. during and after the war, it was still an exciting life, being a military wife. She did not have to work in a bank anymore. After we were born, they returned to California where dad's parents had that wonderful house on the beach with the sailboat. It all must have seemed pretty glamorous for her.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Christmas Party, early 1950's
I saved this photograph and a couple of earlier ones to make a point. Ann and I discussed this recently. Mom often told us that one of the reasons she married dad was that his parents paid for her train ticket down to Florida. She felt obliged to marry him--a very bad justification for getting married. However, he was a military officer. The two of them did travel about the country with assignments in states and at bases she'd never been to before. For her, being born and raised in rural Kansas, even though she had lived in Phoenix and L.A. during and after the war, it was still an exciting life, being a military wife. She did not have to work in a bank anymore. After we were born, they returned to California where dad's parents had that wonderful house on the beach with the sailboat. It all must have seemed pretty glamorous for her.
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