Post-WW2 Joy (too good not to share)
My beautiful parents. Dad was an arty officer. N. Africa. Captured by the Germans, and escaped when a British Spitfire strafed the marching column.
Then, Italy (wounded, recovered (Purple Heart)). Winter of '44 in a pup tent. With the first US forces through the gates at the horror of Dachau.
Married my mom, a school teacher. Dad got his PhD at Auburn, and became a professor at the University of Georgia. Incredible couple dedicated to public education.
If I look a tad like either of them, I'm doing good!
Mobile, Alabama
Ca. 1947
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They were one nice looking couple. I love your mom's sense of style in that pic! 
Thanks for posting.
Over the years, some picky folks have scoffed at the “Greatest Generation” label, but good lord, look at your parents’ accomplishments— plus, kids! All that time spent in service to others, which, sadly, we have precious little of today.
My dad was older at the outbreak in December, 1941, pushing 40 (in the 60s, I was the only kid around whose parents’ age matched the decade). But they were drafting up to age 45, so he enlisted in OCS for the Air Corp Technical and Training Command (“We Keep ‘Em Flying”). His orders: the dangerous Santa Monica, California theater, attached to the Douglas Aircraft plant there. Laugh now, but not one Japanese plane made it past the lifeguard stations.
And that’s where he met my mom, who assisted GIs with finding places to live for the duration. She kiddingly called my dad’s paddleball injury “Purple Heart.” 
Hailing from El Paso, Santa Monica beach looked like paradise to my dad, so they bought a house nearby in 1947 for $11,000, paid for with the help of a GI loan.
They did well.
too.....
you were smart enough to pick good parents!
FDR's New Deal was largely responsible for America's Post War Middle Class. By the 1960's, we had the Largest Middle Class in the world...
I think you can thank subsequent Republican administrations with their Tax Cutting, Off-Shoring, and Union Busting, for the fact that America now has the Smallest Middle Class in the developed world..
what a great looking couple!
Look at those rolled up slacks and bobby socks. They were also very cool.
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