Re: Today - September 17 Is My Wedding Anniversary... - Page 5

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

It is nice that you have such wonderful memories. They can bring smiles.

This year would have been my 50th. How time flys.

gjc57 · ‎03-10-2010

I met my fellow on April 5th at a club dance. He was 23 and I was 19. I thought he was the most handsome man I had ever seen. We danced the night away and he asked me for a date on the next day. He asked me to marry him in May and I said yes. We were married with a beautiful church wedding on July 5th. Three months to the day after we met. We had been married 56 years when he passed away in 2012. We raised 3 great children. We have 8 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren and counting. He

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@Annabellethecat66

Thank you for sharing, there is nothing better than a good love story! 💙

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

@AuntG @He loved to box. He used to fight in the Junior golden gloves.

I still have his punch bag hanging in the garage. He could jump rope and punch the bag in rhythm like boxers do.

Friends of his would come over and they’d box together.

He had a major problem when it came to boxing. A good hard hit to his nose would start it bleeding and that would be the end of he match. So he’d really have to protect that nose! Ha!

He had an amazing body at 58. He had stomach muscles lined up ( like a 6 pack).

That’s what made it so crazy that he just stood up and died.

He’d be so happy and proud of the family we created.

Thanks to all of you for your kind words.

During those 7 years before we had children, we did so many fun things.

We didn’t have a lot of money. We’d make our own kites and paint them, then fly them. We’d roller skate together. Just things like that.

Be safe to everyone.😘

emmygrace · ‎02-12-2020

@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
On this day 54 years ago, I married my sweet husband.

We only knew each other a little less than 3 months.

I told my sister I was going to marry him from the moment I saw him.

He was in the Honor Guard (they march and guard the tomb of the Unknown soldier. They also bury military buried at Ft Myer, Va).

It was during the Vietnam War. I was dating two other guys at the same time.

Most of you were around back then. Most of the males (younger ones) were in the military.

My sister and I went to a dance at Ft Myer miltary base. We loved to dance. It was light-hearted fun.

My sister went over to my honey and said "My sister over there would like to dance with you".

He said, "OK, but first I have to fight this guy outside".

The other guy didn't show up so he came back in. He walked over to me and said, "You wanna dance?"

I acted all surprised and said, "Yes...sure ...but I don't like to dance slow".

He said, "Neither do I". We were both lying. We later admitted we were worried about dancing slow with someone we didn't know.

We intended to get married after 1 month but since we wanted to get married in the cute little church at Ft Myer, we had to wait because they were burying so many people there.

We sweated out if he would be sent to Vietnam, but they had him staring in the Torchlight Tatoo there, so that kept him here.

We waited on purpose 7 years to have a child. We were so in love and wanted to wait until I could stay home with the child/children.

Life was amazing. I'm a firm believer you can do anything you put your mind to. He worked 2 jobs and went to University at the same time. I worked at the Pentagon.

Personality-wise we are like night and day. But we made it work because the love was so strong.

We had the same middle name, the same blood type (a little rare), and the same social security number except for the last 3 numbers. He was born all the way on the West Coast and I was born all the way on the East Coast. I was 6 months older than him.

How can you not feel like you're married to your soul mate when so much is similar?

He died in my arms in 2004. I'm lucky there too. You see, I wasn't supposed to be home, but went back in house because I'd forgotten something.

I heard him hit the floor. It sounded like a big box had been dropped. I didn't usually call to him when he was in the office because he might have been on a business call. But something said to go check on him.

This was a man who'd never been sick and only too one pill. They never found out why he died.

I rolled him over and did CPR. I was lucky because I was able to put my lips on his as I did CPR. My air was going into him. I saw his chest go up as I pressed my lips to his and pushed my air into him. But it came out as quickly as I breathed it into him.

I knew he was gone. I kept (between breaths) saying, "Please don't leave me. Damit, you said you'd never leave me. I can't breathe at the thought of loosing you."

But he was already gone. Just as quickly as you can blink your eyes, my life changed that day.

But I have 3 beautiful (inside and out) daughters and 8 (7 living) grandchildren, one has his name.

He left a legacy that not a lot of people have.

When we had his wake to celebrate his life, a lot of people showed up. His past business partner made a video of him and our girls set to music (his and my girl's favorite songs).

So many people got up and told some of the crazy stories about him and the two of us. My girls got up and said what it was like being the daughter of such an amazing man.

He volunteered as a driver for the American Red Cross. He drove people who didn't have a way to get to Chemo treatments to and from the place.

One young woman had bone cancer. She eventually lost the use of her legs. He'd pick her up and carry her to and from the car.

The volunteer from the cancer society talked about how he'd even change flights to Florida (where he built houses) just so he could drive people.

These are all the things I think about today (our anniversary) and in a few weeks is the day he died.

We'd just celebrated our anniversary and spent 1 week at the beach with family and friends. The only way to describe it was amazing and magical.

If you got through this, thank you. I just felt like it was a good way to acknowledge the man who made my life so wonderful.

I've already heard from my girls today. My grandchildren talk about him like he was still alive. We relate all the fun things we did and the crazy stories we'd tell them before they were born.

I'm sure many of you have stories to tell your grandchildren. I hope you do.

When you give children a sense of family and how lucky they are to live in this country and the freedom to make their life what they want it to be, you are giving them the foundation for a happy life.

Thanks so much for posting this beautiful story about you and your husband...I believe you will see each other again..and this time..it will be forever!!!!

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

@emmygrace I don't know if you remember, but I've often commented on how much I like your moniker.

My granddaughter (the 18 year old) is named Emily Grace and we often call her ...(you guessed it) EmmeGrace. I miss her so much. She started school at Virginia Tech a few weeks ago. We spent a lot of time together tooling around (her driving me), eating McDonalds in my car, talking and talking and her teaching me what is and isn't with teenagers.

Phew! Sorry, totally off. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks to yu and everyone for your kind words.

The anniversary of when he died is coming up soon. It will be 16 years. Sometimes it seems like yesterday and other times it seems like .....well...a long time ago.

emmygrace · ‎02-12-2020

@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
@emmygrace I don't know if you remember, but I've often commented on how much I like your moniker.

My granddaughter (the 18 year old) is named Emily Grace and we often call her ...(you guessed it) EmmeGrace. I miss her so much. She started school at Virginia Tech a few weeks ago. We spent a lot of time together tooling around (her driving me), eating McDonalds in my car, talking and talking and her teaching me what is and isn't with teenagers.

Phew! Sorry, totally off. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks to yu and everyone for your kind words.

The anniversary of when he died is coming up soon. It will be 16 years. Sometimes it seems like yesterday and other times it seems like .....well...a long time ago.
@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
@emmygrace I don't know if you remember, but I've often commented on how much I like your moniker.

My granddaughter (the 18 year old) is named Emily Grace and we often call her ...(you guessed it) EmmeGrace. I miss her so much. She started school at Virginia Tech a few weeks ago. We spent a lot of time together tooling around (her driving me), eating McDonalds in my car, talking and talking and her teaching me what is and isn't with teenagers.

Phew! Sorry, totally off. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks to yu and everyone for your kind words.

The anniversary of when he died is coming up soon. It will be 16 years. Sometimes it seems like yesterday and other times it seems like .....well...a long time ago.

Emmy Grace was my little min pin's name!...I miss her too. just wanted you to know that I cared...its wonderful that you have all those beautiful memories...you are precious!!! You also are blessed to have your beautiful daughters and grandchildren...he lives through them!