Vindaloo
November 11th, Veterans Day, is the anniversary of my parents’ first date. My father asked my mother out for a drink after work, and she accepted.
My father was a young Army officer, working to design tank parts as part of the World War II effort. He was assigned to the industrial city of Detroit. Instead of just making cars at the time, they were also constructing big war machinery. My mother worked for the army in the file room. At the time, the design engineers, like my father, were working to advance our warfare machinery. Everything was important and pretty hush-hush.
My mother was one of many, many women in charge of filing the design drawings. Imagine file cabinets as far as the eye can see. They had huge wide drawers that were very narrow top to bottom. The blueprints were on paper at the time and very large. They had to lay flat. Women carried the drawings rolled into huge cardboard tubes. Then they unrolled them and filed them in the massive drawers.
Everyone was putting in their best effort. It was a very busy, and nervous time.
Because all of the war machinery being worked on was a secret effort, they had rules they had to follow to keep the top secret stuff secret. And there were more rules to protect all those involved. My parents broke the rules...
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