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So There We Were….
We had a President under attack and a VP with lots of questions about their ability to serve. We were fighting what some called a proxy war against a large competitor on the grounds of a county that many couldn’t have found on a map before the conflict. Gas prices were going up, and we were about to be held hostage by gas-producing countries. This was causing an economic and employment crisis, and there were political riots in the country.
That was 51 years ago today.
The only difference was that I was getting married that night — an event for which I am eternally grateful.
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So you went through with it? Good for you — and your wife (I assume you’re a guy)!
Happy Anniversary
Thanks – last I checked, anyway
@instugator – thank you too !
Tell us more about your bride, and lessons learned along the way.
Happy anniversary
I’m not sure out lessons would be generally applicable these days, but I would say you should spend some time knowing the other person before marriage. Our mothers were in the same garden club and her brother and I spent a summer together mowing lawns.
I started dating her when she was 15 and I was 18 and we have been dating, going steady (do they still say that these days?), engaged or married since then.
I don’t think you have to have the same exact interests – she is a Biologist and I am an Engineer, but having the same values is important. Mrs Spring also knew me well enough to understand that I tend to get totally involved in work.
She has taught me to be more observant of the nature around us. I only knew a few kinds of birds or butterflies, but she has helped me there – I am sitting now in the kitchen and enjoying the birds in the drive and on the feeders. There is a Carolina Wren, multiple Sparrows, Juncos, Titmice, Bluejays, Cardinals. Red Bellied, Downy and sometimes Hairy Woodpeckers – all generally known as my “customers”, since I buy the birdseed.
Having said all of that, we are still surprised at the things we find in common that no one told us 51 years ago were important.
Happy anniversary.
I’m not a pilot, but have been around enough civilian and military ones that I imagined hands going into place with that title.