Fleeting Memories

When my parents married, they were pretty young. My mother was seventeen soon to be eighteen, and my father was nineteen, soon to turn twenty.  At that time men were not of legal age until twenty-one, but women were considered adults at eighteen. They had to get permission from their parents to marry. I think that may have been difficult for them, but they never said that it was a problem. They both lived through World War II and the challenges that it brought. There was not an Air Force at the time; my father was in the Army Air Corps. He flew the P-38 Lightning. He flew his missions out of France and Germany as the Allies moved east. He was in Germany after the war was over in that theater and helped the people who had been treated poorly in the towns. Many were refugees from the concentration camps that the Germans had, and the people were in need of food, clothes, and shelter. Leonard Smith Stubbs and Rose Carolyn Higgins Stubbs I am grateful to my parents who were ...