This is a picture of my Grammy and Grandfather's wedding day on September 7th, 1942. Pearl Harbor had been attacked almost a year earlier and they got married in her hometown of Evansville, Indiana while he was on leave from the Navy. He died when my Dad was 12 and my Dad gave me his namesake 15 years later. People say he used to smile a lot and little kids followed him around like a Pied Piper.
From the Naval Academy's website:
Abbot Street was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 18, 1918. He died there on October 30, 1959. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, he attended Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland for a year before entering the Naval Academy in 1936. On graduation, he was assigned to the cruiser MILWAUKEE, in which he served for two years before going into flight training. In 1942, he married Katherine Ruthenburg.
Cute!
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