Reading this Strib piece about a couple celebrating their anniversary on Pearl Harbor day:

The attack drew the United States into World War II, drew Sheldon into the Army and gave him a running joke about how President Franklin Roosevelt, standing before Congress, declared his wedding day “a date which will live in infamy.”

I’m reminded of my ex-in-laws, who were married 65 years ago last November 30 – just in time for my eventually-ex-father-in-law to join the Navy and spend most of the next three years at sea.  So while your’e thanking any WWII vets in your life, drop a nod to the spouses who in so many cases not only waited for their loved ones to return, but ran families and held jobs while they did it, without a fraction of the infrastructure we have to support that kind of thing today.

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