My Gram's second husband was in the Navy, and we have boxes of letters between him and his first wife from 1937 to the mid-60's. Several more boxes of photos and slides, and his medals.
I've got the letters sorted by year, and I'm just now finishing reading 1939. They were quite a pair. she was several years older and had been married before. I have 2 marriage certs for them, as it seems the first wasn't quite legal (or they divorced and remarried).
Casey wrote a great description of the Panama Canal, writes a bit about how the ship works, and in one letter about standing to attention as FDR passes by on another ship. I'm really looking forward to the war year's letters.
They didn't have any kids, so I'm trying to track down their sibling's families.
Kenneth Charles MILLER
Birth 9 Aug 1913 in Texas
Death 29 Aug 2005 in Multnomah, Oregon, United States
and
Sennie Ruth WILSON
Birth 04 Sep 1908 in Alabama
Death 25 Mar 1979 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA
and here's a link to the tree I've built so far...
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/23422653/family?cfpid=1385755574
(somebody click on this please, and let me know if it shows up right) 
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