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🗓️ 18 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Coming up on 49, December 18, 2024. |
0:10.0 | Nancy and I got married on New Year's Eve, 1975. |
0:14.0 | It took us a few years to figure out why the restaurants were always so crowded on our anniversary dates. |
0:19.0 | But because we got married New Year's Eve, that being the case, |
0:21.7 | we will be marking our 49th anniversary in just a few weeks. And yes, we do recognize the mathematical |
0:27.2 | implications of this for next year. Fifty years of marriage does seem like kind of a lot for people |
0:32.1 | as young as we are. And now, with your permission, I think I'm going to share with you how we got |
0:36.9 | together. I was off in the Navy, 1971 to 1975, in the Submarine Service. |
0:42.3 | The last two years of this, I was stationed out of Norfolk on a fast attack, the USS Ray, 653. |
0:48.3 | For a number of reasons, being unmarried was getting to be really tedious for me, |
0:52.3 | and I was starting to think that post-Navy would be a good |
0:54.8 | time to get married. The only difficulty was a shortage of prospects. Yes, that was the only difficulty. |
1:00.8 | If we had some ham, we could make a ham and cheese sandwich if we had some cheese. Somewhere in this time |
1:05.6 | period, I was talking with my mother on the phone, and she said something like, well, I don't care what kind of a girl you bring |
1:10.8 | home so long as it's a girl like Nancy Greensides. She said that and I thought something like, |
1:15.7 | huh, and filed it away. Nancy had grown up in a God-fearing home, but not an evangelical home. Her father |
1:21.5 | was a career bomber pilot in the Air Force, and they were Protestants in the military chapel system. |
1:26.8 | She'd lived on various bases from Germany to Michigan, |
1:29.7 | and her father got out as Vietnam was heating up. |
1:32.5 | He had fought through World War II in Korea and thought that three wars was pushing it. |
1:36.8 | They located in Texas for a time, and then after Nancy graduated from high school there, |
1:41.0 | they all moved to Idaho. |
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