This weekend the nation will commemorate the searing events of nearly five years ago, but today my family looks back over half a century to a quiet Saturday in Honolulu. A young electrician, who had returned from his tour of duty in occupied Japan, married a lady who worked at the phone company.
They had a church wedding and wore formal clothes that were heavy and uncomfortable in the tropical heat. Friends and family---many now departed---stare at the camera with frozen expressions. The shutter speeds were so slow that, if anyone moved, the picture would be ruined.
The young man and woman sang and danced into the night and afterward went to Niagara Falls, as everyone did in those days. They were handsome and lean, the promise of their lives unfolding before them. Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad, with love.
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