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My beautiful parents. Dad was an arty officer. N. Africa. Captured by the Germans, and escaped when a British Spitfire strafed the marching column.
Then, Italy (wounded, recovered (Purple Heart)). Winter of '44 in a pup tent. With the first US forces through the gates at the horror of Dachau.
Married my mom, a school teacher. Dad got his PhD at Auburn, and became a professor at the University of Georgia. Incredible couple dedicated to public education.
If I look a tad like either of them, I'm doing good!
Mobile, Alabama
Ca. 1947
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)chowder66
(9,067 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)Great to be young
herding cats
(19,564 posts)They were one nice looking couple. I love your mom's sense of style in that pic!
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Thanks for posting.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)You chose your parents well. Good on ya.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)your parents' story is remarkable. You have every right to be extremely proud, both during and after the war.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)I won't even post it here except to say he'd have adored your folks!
PSPS
(13,594 posts)No wonder they're smiling!
orangecrush
(19,547 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)irisblue
(32,973 posts)authentic bad a%s, both of them.
MLAA
(17,288 posts)Good looks and character.
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)Hekate
(90,674 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,334 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)I love the look of happiness on both their faces.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)you might be almost as good looking.
I love your pic at fire station!
MRDAWG
(501 posts)What's his name and what did he teach? I was at UGA 1964-1969.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Over the years, some picky folks have scoffed at the Greatest Generation label, but good lord, look at your parents accomplishments plus, kids! All that time spent in service to others, which, sadly, we have precious little of today.
My dad was older at the outbreak in December, 1941, pushing 40 (in the 60s, I was the only kid around whose parents age matched the decade). But they were drafting up to age 45, so he enlisted in OCS for the Air Corp Technical and Training Command (We Keep Em Flying). His orders: the dangerous Santa Monica, California theater, attached to the Douglas Aircraft plant there. Laugh now, but not one Japanese plane made it past the lifeguard stations. And thats where he met my mom, who assisted GIs with finding places to live for the duration. She kiddingly called my dads paddleball injury Purple Heart.
Hailing from El Paso, Santa Monica beach looked like paradise to my dad, so they bought a house nearby in 1947 for $11,000, paid for with the help of a GI loan.
They did well.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)And they look like a young, hopeful pair dont they? Dreaming dreams that included you.
Upthevibe
(8,042 posts)too.....
klook
(12,154 posts)hay rick
(7,610 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)You are a very lucky person!
Aristus
(66,328 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)chaplain during the war, and afterwards worked with wounded vets to secure their civil rights as disabled citizens.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...of study?
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Love the picture.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)you were smart enough to pick good parents!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a cute couple!
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)We Baby Boomers benefitted greatly by the GI loans and the social services that Franklin Roosevelt started for them. I think that maY have been the last time our government really took care of their veterans AFTER a war. They became the Middle Class.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)FDR's New Deal was largely responsible for America's Post War Middle Class. By the 1960's, we had the Largest Middle Class in the world...
I think you can thank subsequent Republican administrations with their Tax Cutting, Off-Shoring, and Union Busting, for the fact that America now has the Smallest Middle Class in the developed world..
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And shrinking.
The RW leadership would like to return this country to a Two Tier society of Rich and Poor with, perhaps, a very small middle class to attend to their needs. I have read that a Middle Class has always had to be fought for.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,988 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)sl8
(13,761 posts)Thank you, DemoTex.
panader0
(25,816 posts)He flew A-20s, a small three man bomber. He did 25 missions out of England
beforehand, (B-17) then 25 out of N. Africa. He lived in a tent as well.
He had some great stories.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)what a great looking couple!
benld74
(9,904 posts)Wonderful story!
Great photo
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Look at those rolled up slacks and bobby socks. They were also very cool.