77 years ago...

…a sailor was on leave in Portchester, New York, far from his home in Cisco, Texas. He and his young fiancée tried to get a marriage license.

They were turned down, because—while she was almost 19—he was 20, and being an male minor, he needed his parents’ written permission. There was no way to get that in time—and the church was already booked.

The cle…