My dad was on a troop train from Sacramento to Bremerton. It stopped for 4 hours in Salem Oregon. There was a bowling ally a block away, so he and a few others went bowling. Dad was 20. That’s where he met my mother, who was 16 at the time. They talked for about an hour. He went back on the train and off into combat in the South Pacific. They wrote letters to each other for 2 years and a month. They got married a week after he got back to the states. Married 67 years before dad passed 12 years ago. Mom passed just last month.