Mom and Dad Woods Wedding

My parents had a true wartime wedding.  They met, two weeks later got engaged , two and a half months later married , and 2 weeks later Dad got orders and shipped out for two and a half years.  Mom , Mary Margaret Bracewell from Burlington Iowa, was a lieutenant in the Navy Reserves , Dad , Norbert Vincent Woods, a lieutenant in the Marines, was from Schenectady, New York.  Given the oddities of the Navy despite that they were both lieutenants, she outranked him.  They had a formal military wedding with honor guard.  Mom resigned her commission and lived with her mother in law .  Dad was sent to...