Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Tonight, Wednesday, December 17, 2014, we had a choice experience.  I'll have to admit that I haven't kept a journal for several years.  When we had our golden wedding in 2005, we were in the process of writing a book of our life stories, and we finished it in 2006.  It was a hardbound book of 635 pages, and included histories of each of our 9 children up to that point, with pictures of their children, our grandchildren, and a few of our great grandchildren born then.  I had kept journals for many years, and drew stories from them for our book.   The next year we did a book of our letters to each other over a 14 month period while Wayne was in the army.  We met on a blind date in August, 1953, very soon after Wayne returned home from his mission to Sweden.  He didn't write to me until 8 months later when he was in Trieste, during the Korean War.  But we began writing, and ended up writing 2 to 4 times each week, before he came home on July 4th, 1955.  Those letters were