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General => General Discussion & Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: Smokin Don on August 20, 2015, 11:07:31 AM
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We were married Aug. 20, 1966. I was in the USAF and 6 months later was sent to King Salmon Alaska. I rented a half of a cabin on the river and Nancy flew up for a month for our 1st Anniversary. She had frozen the top of our wedding cake and brought it along on dry ice. Here we are enjoying some champagne and the cake. The salmon season was slowing down but we did get her out in a boat to catch some nice fish. We ate a lot of salmon and trout while she was there for a month.
You can see she was there during the buggy season and you needed bee keeper’s nets while outdoors. You can see our shack on the King Salmon Creek and River was pretty desolate, no other homes in site. The cabin was about 2 to 3 miles from the site; most mornings I got a ride with a civilian that worked at the site but a few times I had to walk in. One pic Nancy is in front of the only store in town and one we are at a bar with my friend and wife in Nek Nek. Some great memories here!
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(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/My%20Favorite%20Photos/nancy_dayscatch_zpsdeexfqd4.jpg)
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Nancy's largest catch, a red salmon
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Nancy with my friend and wife in Nek Nek
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Two cabins here, we stayed in the back half on the left
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Smokin Don
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Great photos and great memories. Thanks for sharing them with us!
Tammy spent a good part of her childhood in Juneau, Alaska.
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Wow great flash back, one more year til the Big 5-0! Thank you for share and Happy Anniversary!
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Happy Anniversary. Great pictures and stories.
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Happy Anniversary Don - great pics and memories!!!! (side note - thanks for your service to this great country!)
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You guys are a great family .
Happy Anniversary .
Man Nancy is good with the fishing rod .
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Looking at those reminds me of my parents pictures when they lived in Turkey and Italy. Y'all look great in the photos!
I was born that year, so you know it was a good year ;) :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Thank you for showing its some SD history. Happy anniversary my friend.
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Don, She sure looks like a keeper to put up with that environment. Happy Anniversary.
Your comment about the wedding cake reminds me of what happened to ours. Carole had kept the top in a freezer for years as we moved from one duty station to another. I'm not sure why she was doing it but she was. At one location we had a maid and I guess she got hungry and ate the top of the wedding cake while Carole was out. Oh, Well.
Dee
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Happy Anniversary and thank you for letting us share your memories with you :)
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Happy Anniversry ! Great photos, thanks for sharing
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Don, She sure looks like a keeper to put up with that environment. Happy Anniversary.
Your comment about the wedding cake reminds me of what happened to ours. Carole had kept the top in a freezer for years as we moved from one duty station to another. I'm not sure why she was doing it but she was. At one location we had a maid and I guess she got hungry and ate the top of the wedding cake while Carole was out. Oh, Well.
Dee
That was funny Dee! We both could have stayed in King Salmon, my wife was a secretary at WPAFB, Dayton and the CO of Civil Engineering offered her a job at King Salmon, and said I could stay on as a civilian electrician since I was getting discharged. Only 16 miles of road there and no where else to go. I knew she would never last there. Don
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what a great story, not many people have that great history together.
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Happy Anniversry, thanks for sharing ;D
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Great pictures Don!
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Great pictures bring back lots of memories. Thanks for sharing.
Art
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Great PICs and Story. I hope you had a great anniversary. I was a month away from popping out in Aug '67
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Very cool
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How time fly's. Those are awesome Pics Don.
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Happy anniversary. Very cool pictures
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SD, thanks for sharing those great pics and good family memories.
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What wonderful photos-- thank you for sharing those!! Those are some hard core adventures!!