Goin' to the Chapel and They're Gonna Get Married

Actually the wedding will be held at the VFW Hall, but ---[trumpet fanfare] They ARE going to get married. At last! Finally! The sea has surrendered the sailor to the shore. This wedding has had a couple of other dates when it was scheduled, only to have the plans changed by the demands of submarine life reality.

So, we're heading off to Massachusetts tomorrow. We'll be joined by another son and another daughter and we'll join those East Coasters for a grand celebration. I met the bride a year and a half ago when I went out there to see our two sons. One lives in Baltimore, and the other son was attending submarine training school in Connecticut. When I went up to New England, I was given a superb tour of the Freedom Trail in Boston, by my son's then-girlfriend who has lived her entire life in that part of Massachusetts.

Not only was the tour around Boston one of my life goals, but she was a delight! I thought to myself, "Hmmm, I hope he has enough sense to marry her." And when he got his orders in October that sent him to Guam and his first boat, he did show a lot of good sense and bought her an engagement ring. So, now, at last, several months after they'd planned it, the wedding is going to occur.

I'm delighted for both of them. We anticipate a wonderful weekend. We met her parents last winter when they visited Las Vegas, and we're in agreement that our children have chosen a fine life partner!  What more could you want?

 

This was at a family "meet the fiance and say farewell to the sailor" when they came west a year ago before he left for Guam.

 

 

We were on the way to the airport. He went west....really far west until it was almost east. She went east back to Massachusetts. We knew that this weekend would eventually come, but it has been a long year!