Met my Wife Laura Tilzey at A Dance

I was stationed at RAF Fairford in February 1955. I went to a dance and saw my wife Laura dancing. I knew then and there I had to meet her, so asked her for a dance and from that moment on we became a couple, and a month later I asked her to marry me and she said yes. We were married at the Bristol Registry Office on June 4th, 1955. I was in the US Air Force and after we married we found a place in Cirencester and during my tour of duty at RAF Fairford our family became 4 of us as our 2 eldest sons were born. We left to go back to the States in 1958, but I was back on two more tours of duty in 1959 at Greenham Common, near Newbury, Berks and in 1968 at Alconbury, near Peterborough. We celebrated our 56th anniversary this past June 2011. We lost our 2 eldest sons to heart problems in 1993 and 1995, and we have 2 daughters and a son along with 9 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren to date. We get back to England to visit Laura's family and our close friends as often as we can. We are both retired and enjoying our twilight years together.