Yesterday was my anniversary
It was yesterday and this year it sort of went by unnoticed. Tony and I were married on the 8th of march 1971 at the small Catholic church of St Anthony of Padua in San Antonio, TX. We had known each other for about 2 and 1/2 years having met at a Neumann club function. We did not start dating until the spring after Tony joined the Navy and I was heading to UT in Austin. We were mostly pen pals for most of the 2 years before we married seeing each other when he would come home on leave. When Tony graduated from "A" school he was sent on to specialize in sonar and so he spent the first 2 years of his Navy career in San Diego going to classes while a lot of his friends whom failed to avoid the draft were being shipped off to Vietnam. After his graduation he was assigned to the USS Richard E. Byrd(DDG23). Shortly after he arrived on the ship they left for a 6month Med cruise that turned into 10 months. The Egyptian and the Israeli army had decided to go to war. When he ...