Today is Sauntering Day.
Chuck Yeager & Glennis Dickhouse Yeager on their wedding day
When Chuck Yeager met Glennis Dickhouse, his first wife, he was a United States Army Air Corps pilot, with the lowly rank of flight officer. The two flight officers, Chuck and Mac McKee, his best friend, were tasked with going to the USO and arranging a dance for the men.
Glennis described setting eyes on Chuck for the first time as follows:
“I was working at the USO in Oroville, (California) when Chuck come sauntering in with another airman. He said he wanted me to arrange a dance and invite enough women for 30 men.
“I exclaimed, “You want me to find 30 girls by tonight?”
He replied, all self-assured: ‘No. Twenty-nine ‘cause I’m taking you.’”
And so began their love story.
- GCYI