Nancy Mitford

today is her birthday

Today is my grandparents 50th year wedding anniversary.
This is them on their honeymoon, i love them so much and they are the living proof that true love does exist.

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War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages.

Wartime marriages occur in all places where servicemen find themselves. For example, according to The Daily Telegraph, it is estimated that there are "... 15,000 Australian women who married American servicemen based in Australia during World War II and moved to the US to be with their husbands".

"Well she was holding her future in a hand

Yeah the faded photo of her man
Catch a sailor if you can
The war bride leaves her southern land

All the girls around Australia
Married to a Yankee Sailor
The fare is paid across the sea
To the home of the brave and the land of the free"