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Show ROBERT THAYER D B R 2002 was quite popular down there and she was on several assemblie . h wa quit a dane r. She could tap dance, and so she was quite popular. I was kind of lucky to get her (laughs). And what's even more fantastic, I think as I look back on it we were married in '41, and we never had an anniversary together until our fifth. I was gone all that time. And yet she still waited for me, and she was here when I came back from the service. BEC: And that didn't always happen, did it? ROB: No. I'd see those guys overseas get those "Dear John" letters and, you know, life goes on and it's really a miracle, I think, that we both stayed true to each other, and I think back, and we took off just like nothing had happened. BEC: You know, that really is amazing because obviously you matured a lot from when you left to when you came back and she did too, so a lot of times it was hard to- ROB: It just made the-well, we were married in August of' 41 and in April of' 42 I was in the service. So we only had about five or six months of married life. BEC: That is something. So Pearl Harbor came just a few months after you were married? ROB: Yeah. Well, and when I got married, I had already gone to the, you know, drawn a number in the draft, and I had quite a low number. I went up to the board, and I said, "We're planning on getting married." They said, "Don't worry. We'll classify you 3-A when you get married." So I got married and got my reclassification. Boy, Pearl Harbor happened the next December, and I think my 1-A came about two days after (laughs). BEC: Did it really? 9 |
