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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Fifty-fifth Anniversary


Fifty-five years ago today, Ginger and Tom eloped. Tom was 20, Ginger 15. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. I keep telling everyone there was no parole (lol). It was on a Thursday, and I picked Ginger up at school. We had planned to marry on Friday, but saw that it would be a Friday 13th, and decided to change the date to Thursday. I was in the Army, and recently back from Korea. Thinking about it I could have went to jail, I guess. We bought a 1957 Plymouth, and after we told her parents, we went to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where we would live for the next two and a half (almost) years, before I was sent overseas again.

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  1. mybillcriderJanuary 12, 2016 at 9:03 AM

    Happy anniversary!

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  2. Tom JohnsonJanuary 12, 2016 at 9:10 AM

    Thanks, Bill. It's been a lot of years (LOL).

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  3. Erwin-KJanuary 16, 2016 at 7:23 AM

    Sounds a bit familiar. Except for the Elopement part. Forty-five years ago, last October, I was at my first duty station, in Milwaukee of all places, when my wife & I married. In the next fourteen months I was transferred to Miami, then to Korea.

    Happy Anniversury!

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