Proper Pix for Veterans Day

Mama Shakes just emailed me pictures of my granddad from his time in the Coast Guard:

At left, Gene in his uniform. At right, Gene and Mil on their wedding day. My grandmother would be mortified that I posted this picture, since she always hated that picture of herself. She never, ever, saw in the mirror, in this picture or in any other, the beautiful woman that I saw when I looked at her, that her daughter saw when she looked at her, that Gene saw when he looked at her.

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