Shout Out

Shout Out

Noel Laflin

5-2-20

My folks were married on this day 78 years ago. They eloped – isn’t that romantic!

May 2, 1942 just happened to fall on a Saturday too; nothing like a weekend to spur a young couple across state lines.

While checking old calendars to actually see if it was a Saturday – and yes, it was – I happened to look at what else occurred on that particular date. Most of it was bad war news … Japanese sink one of our ships, Germans sink one of our ships, the Poles sink one of their own ships by mistake, etc.

But, on the bright side, a horse by the name of Shout Out won the Kentucky Derby that day!

So, in that spirit, here’s a Shout Out to the folks that brought me and my siblings into this world, once all the bad war news was old news