Mr. Bush died less than eight months later. “I was very happy on that day in 1945,” Mr. Bush wrote in a letter for their anniversary in 1994, “but I’m even happier today. When she was older, Mrs. Carter said, she would visit Ruth Carter, who kept a photograph of her brother on her bedroom wall. “Mother always said I married him because of his uniform,” Mrs. Carter said. “You know that?”“That’s what I thought, too,” Mr. Carter said.

Source: International New York Times July 04, 2021 17:37 UTC