Jul-Aug 2000 I just re-enlisted and my 1SG comes up to me and goes how you getting your family to Arizona. My GF now wife just had our daughter. I said I'm taking them with me, he goes the Army isn't paying you to move them. Then he said you need to get married. That weekend drove to Oregon my gf now wife worked for IHS. I said we need to get married lol.. been married 19 plus yrs..
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Originally Posted by Bricktop
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego.
In a Jaguar E Type, right before she dropped me off to go brief for a flight in Pensacola where I was in flight training. Still with me 38 years this December 18.
Who the hell is that with your wife??!!!
She still looks the same. You were striht from Central Casting back in the old days.
(I might consider you've seen photos me and Mrs. Hatari back when I was buff and shaggy haired, so let's just forget about all this??)
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo
My parents were getting assigned to a US Embassy in East Africa
I was 18, about to be homeless when Dad did the Colonel Kurtz thing with the house, the cars, the horses, the boat, the dogs.
Lived in my girlfriend's bedroom for a couple weeks. 😄
that story deserves more than 2 sentences - the Kurtz part, not the marriage
I guessing "Sell the home, the cars, the wife, the kids" and whatever else was in the tape they played to Martin Sheen before they sent him after Kurtz
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo
I don’t remember, but my wife does because she brought it up a couple of weeks ago. Apparently I stopped by the dental office that she worked at. At some point in the conversation I suggested that maybe we should get married. She then asked if we could have a date and I said “sure let me go home and get cleaned up”. She then had to clarify what have a date meant. At some point I probably would have figured it out.
On top of the ski mountain @ Sunday River Maine. Great weekend ski trip and luckily she said yes. 21 years ago come this January. I’ll never forget the proposal. (Got it on camera) lol! We were married exactly 9 months later.
We both took a taxi to her house after attending the 1973 Marine Corps Birthday Ball in Rota Spain. As i walked her the last block to her home, we stopped and I got a kiss, then asker he to marry me. She said yes, but I needed to ask her dad, who was very sick in bed, in her house. I came over in the next few days and went into her dad's bedroom. I did not speak a single word of Spanish, but my future wife translated for me. He was so sick he couldn't speak, but he took my hand and her hand and squeezed them together and looked at me and smiled, and nodded his head. He died on 1 Jan 1974. My future wife told me that it was a custom in Spain that she wear black for one year and that we could not get married for at least another year. I kept bugging her over the next few months and finally her mother told her to go ahead and get married, which we did on 15 March 1974.
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
In 2012 our son was a software engineer at Amazon and he invited me to lunch in Seattle. He wanted to ask me how to propose to his girl friend. I told him how I proposed to his mother. The check arrived and he said to me, "Don't get cheap with me now!" ala Newman in Jurassic Park.
I told the wife about my day, and she called up our son and said I proposed all wrong. I had told my wife in 1977 that she always had the option, and there was no pressure. Two days later she opted to exercise the option.
My son listened to his mother and proposed to his girlfriend on one knee, in her garden, with a flower in his hand.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
I was 24 and working the booking desk at our jail,we had lived together a lil over 2 years at the time. Back then you had to sign up for Insurance when it was open or wait till the next year. I worked off nights and told her we had a class come up that Mon am, I went and bought her a ring and asked her when she came in from work that afternoon. The next day it was a done deal for the next 31 1/2 years. Would I change any thing about it, not for all the money in the world. Would I give all the money in the world to have her back,you bet and then some. She passed Aug 13 last year. If you are lucky enough to have a great wife treat her right it pays off in the long run. Ps Cancer Sucks.
We both took a taxi to her house after attending the 1973 Marine Corps Birthday Ball in Rota Spain. As i walked her the last block to her home, we stopped and I got a kiss, then asker he to marry me. She said yes, but I needed to ask her dad, who was very sick in bed, in her house. I came over in the next few days and went into her dad's bedroom. I did not speak a single word of Spanish, but my future wife translated for me. He was so sick he couldn't speak, but he took my hand and her hand and squeezed them together and looked at me and smiled, and nodded his head. He died on 1 Jan 1974. My future wife told me that it was a custom in Spain that she wear black for one year and that we could not get married for at least another year. I kept bugging her over the next few months and finally her mother told her to go ahead and get married, which we did on 15 March 1974.
Wow Phil Mrs Kati aint changed a bit, but that uniform might be a lil snug on ya now. I know it happens to the best of us.
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