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Margaret tells the story of how she met Ted and the romance - and hurdles- of getting engaged and married as servicemen and women during the war.      

  1951: Brooks and Rena, shortly after their wedding    My husband's paternal grandparents, Brooks and Rena, have now been married for 62 years.  One of my favorite stories that Brooks tells is the one of how he and Rena got together. Brooks grew up in a valley 120 miles east...

Margaret talks about how her family hurriedly arranged her wedding to Ted before he was transferred overseas during World War II.  Margaret was 19 years old and Ted was 20.