Memories
Listener Submission: Most Meaningful Wedding Music Story

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My husband and I met while both of us were stationed in Okinawa, Japan—I in the Navy as a nurse and he as an avionicsman with a CH53 helicopter squadron in the Marine Corps. I had always wanted to learn to scuba dive and decided that Okinawa would be the place I would do it. I enrolled at a local dive shop and started classes. I had completed all of the classes up to Seach and Rescue and was just starting this particular class. In walks my now husband and a friend of his. I was quite a little angry that he was late and had thus made the class late, but it was love at first sight for him!

He asked me to be his dive partner for our first search and rescue dive. That means that I got to follow behind him and keep track of all of his gear while he simulates saving a drowning person! Sometime during our dive I got bit by some sort of "creature" on the face but didn't really think much of it. A couple of days later I developed what is called cellulitis, which spead up my cheek and down my neck making me quite ill. I had to be hospitalized for several days. While I was in the hospital I was visited by my now husband. However, I don't remember this as I was on some pretty potent pain medication!

Upon discharge from the hospital my now husband came to visit me at my home. We went out for a celebration dinner of sushi and oyaku don. We decided this was our first date. I thought that we would have many more dates but my husband-to-be obviously had different ideas, as nine days later he sits me down and while giving me the most beautiful seashell in the world asks me to marry him!

One month later while on leave to the United States, we were married. The topper that I chose for my wedding cake was a crystal music box with two dolphins jumping through the surf that plays "Memories" from the musical Cats.

Donna J. Bjork
Duluth, MN