Kelly: War bride, GI make a life in Omaha (69th wedding anniversary on June 2)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/kelly-war-bride-gi-make-a-life-in-omaha/article_3227842a-d5ca-5796-8b19-014c245d96c4.html?mode=image

POSTED: SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 12:15 AM

By Michael Kelly / World-Herald columnist

“War brides,” they were called, and more than 100,000 came to America in the mid-20th century.

One of them, born in France and raised in Belgium, was Carmen Salenbier (Sal-lin-bee-AY). But you can call her “Peggy,” the nickname later given to her by husband Marion Tabor, a U.S. Army D-Day veteran who goes by “Bob.”

Carmen, 19, and Marion, 21 — Peggy and Bob — were an unlikely pairing. But wasn’t that true of just about every couple who met and married because of World War II?

Bob, part Cherokee on his mother’s side, grew up poor in the eastern Kentucky town of Olive Hill.

FULL story and photos at link.