881. Meeting on July 4, 1955 and Memories of my dear husband, Wayne, and his days in the army, and our courtship --
Wayne, on a July 4th holiday at our son Allen's in Menan, Idaho. Wayne on the left, and Blaine, his twin brother, in the army in 1954, in Europe. This was first written on July 4, 2016. Tomorrow, July 4th, is the anniversary of two major events in my husband Wayne D Eckman's life! In 1953, he returned home from his 2 and a half year mission to Sweden, and was awaiting his draft papers to be in the army, during the Korean War period. In August, the next month, is when Wayne and I were introduced by mutual friends, on a blind date. My best friend from Dixie High School had married one of his best friends in Murray, Utah. They picked me up from an old Church in Salt Lake City, I forget which one, where we were attending a family reunion. We just rode around and they 2 men mostly talked about memories of their high school days, and Wayne's mission. Wayne said he would write to me, and I told him to write to: Pal Miles, St. George, Utah, and it would get to
