A Maryland couple once pulled apart by war is now celebrating 75 years of marriage.
Dorothy and Darrell Bush of Camp Springs, Maryland, tied the knot on Oct. 23, 1943.
Less than two months later, Darrell went to fight in World War II.
"I was hit five times," he said.
Darrell fought with General George Patton's Third Army and was among the liberators of the Dachau concentration camp, the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
But his bride Dorothy was constantly on his mind while he was away.
"I went overseas and all these French girls and German girls, but I was in combat the whole time. I fought in combat - Battle of the Bulge," Darrell said.
"Lucky for you," quipped Dorothy.
After the war, the couple settled back into their lives in Camp Springs, the same place they met. Those first flirtatious moments are something Dorothy remembers well.
"He whistled at me one night in the dark for another boy and woke my father up. ... Daddy gave me the dickens. I didn't know who he was," she said.
They were just teens when they ran into each other at the general store on Branch Ave., where Darrell worked before going off to war.
"That's when I kind of met her," Darrell said.
"I thought this boy is strange," Dorothy laughed.
Their relationship quickly blossomed under the watchful eye of Dorothy's parents.
"We were allowed to sit on the porch -- with the light on."
They married when they were both 17 years old.
Now, at 92 and 93, their sense of humor has certainly helped their lasting marriage.
"The only girl I did love. We were so young. You couldn't love anyone else could you?" Darrell said.
"Don't give you too much leeway," Dorothy responded.
