Flash 1962 My Family
If you read my post about my life in 1962 then you’ve read that my family started with my teenage parents. My mom had turned 17 just two days before I was born, my dad at the time was 19; mom still had to finish her senior year in high school after the summer of my birth, my dad had graduated in May of 1962. As young kids still figuring out life they lived with my grandparents when I was born, that would be my dad’s parents. I could explain that initially my mom didn’t have intentions on marry my father nor on raising me. My mother was a straight A student, a National Honor Society student, supposedly with a scholarship to college. Do I believe she loved my father? I do believe she loved with the mindset of a 16 year old child, not that of an adult. She was idealistic as to who she was really marrying, and what was to truly be expected.
My father was another story. This man originally had no intentions of marrying my mother, my mother was one a his girl friends, not the only girl friend. My father was what my kids call ‘a player’. He was a player to the extent that he actually had more than one class ring. In those days the having of a guy’s class ring meant the permanency of going study, that step before engagement. With that concept you would believe would be monogamy but not for my father, he saw it as opportunity. If a girl thought you cared enough to give her your class ring than he could probably get them to put out. Obviously it worked with my mother or I wouldn’t be here, concieved in the back of my grandfather’s car.
My folks were married with the blessing of a shotgun. It was my grandfather that drug his son up to the alter, or the justice of the peace ‘to do the right thing’. My father was forced to marry my mother, it was a case of the adults deciding what was best for these kids when they both made adult decisions to begin with. I truly feel the biggest mistake for everyone’s life was the choices made for these kids. My heart breaks when I think of the lives that ended up sacfriced in this case.
I’ll touch on more as I try to get through the years 
