I was 17 when we met.He had been to Viet Nam..He was home on leave from a tour in Korea..heading to his next base at Ft. Carson Colorado.I guess i would have to say it was love at first sight. We were married 2 weeks after we first met. Nov 2nd. 1970. That was 45 years ago. He " left " me 10 days after we were married to go to base and take care of paperwork and find us a place to live.
He flew home about a week before Christmas and we spent the holidays there and then the 2 of us flew out together to Colorado.Colorado was absolutely beautiful. We settled in to Army life pretty good. Our son was born there at the army hospital. He had to leave to go to NCO academy at Ft. Belvoir Virginia the day we brought our son home from the hospital.When our son was 8 days old i flew with him back home to Ohio to spend the next 6 months with my family while my husband attended the NCO academy. When our baby was 6 months old we returned to Colorado . We remained there for another 6 months till we got "orders ' for Germany' At this time i knew i was pregnant with our 2nd. child and due to complications i had with my 1st pregnancy we opted for me to go back to Ohio and stay with my family till the baby was born.
When our daughter was 6 weeks old we joined him in Germany. We would go on to be stationed at Ft, Hood Texas and then another tour to Germany.. Thru the years of our Army life we made many wonderful friends..some who we still keep in contact with to this day. The Army life was a good life for us. We speak often of all the good times we had..awesome things and places we saw and the wonderful people we met along the way. The Army was our family for many years. My husband is a proud Veteran to this day.
Newark, OH