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Digital Object Identifier
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363-05544 to 363-05545
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Title
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Letter from Chuck Keever to Beverly Keever's family about marriage
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Description
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Letter from Chuck Keever about his plans to marry Beverly Deepe Keever, written to her parents April, 1968
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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3 April
Dear Mr. Mrs. Deepe,"
I guess that Bev has already told you that I have
asked her to marry me and that she has at least
tentatively agreed to do this (which has, as you
could doubtless guess from my high state of enthusiasm
for your wonderful daughter last June, made me just
about the happiest guy in the world!) She has, however,
taken a very pragmatic, legal-type approach to
matrimony, having already extracted from me a contract
whereby she has the right to require me to cook our
breakfasts each morning after we are married and
further to require me to serve her her breakfast in
bed on Sundays! (The quid pro quo for this required
undertaking on my part is, of course, the thing that
makes me very, very happy she agrees to marry me no
later than 1 June 1969 pointing out, by the way,
In any
that the breakfasts start the next morning!)
event, it is this legalistic approach to things
matrimonial on Bev's part which has prompted me to
assert my right as an attorney (as well as a Marine)
to présent some evidence for the defense and Bev has
graciously consented to this.
This particular legal-type confrontation occurred
or commenced when Bev let me read her very fine
article on Marines in Vietnam. My almost immediate
reaction was that although the article was very
interesting, it was hardly an article designed to soothe
the apprehensions of the parents of a young lady who
was weighing a proposal of marriage by a Marine and
of a Marine who has already served a year in the field
in Vietnam, at that! Ergo, this very short statement
of defense on behalf of a Marine who hopes very much
to become a part and parcel of your daughter's life!
I don't know if Bev has told you about my proposal
but it occurred over a three week-end period of time
during which on the first week-end I failed to get up
the courage to propose, only to be ordered back to
Saigon the next week-end by my Commanding General (who
happens to be another devotee of Bev's although luckil
he is happily married already!) "to get the job done."
I finally did get marriage proposed the next week-end
and Bev likes to remember that I proposed before I
even kissed her (although that's not really true
had kissed her on the forehead the evening before just
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as I was leaving). Bev really didn't give me a response
that week-end, so I returned the third week-end only t
to get no real response again, although she didn't say,
"No." It was in this state of suspended animation that
I carried my very deep love for your daughter back to
the States, and nurtured it carefully during the time
I was in Washington, D.C. and then on 17 December
Bev finally relented and made her agreement
remember that prior to committing herself she had to
take care of the problem of breakfasts!
only to
In any event, I'm confident that that record of dashing
romanticism doesn't really fit with Bev's article in
all particulars. I understand, of course, that
journalists make their work sensationallin order to
improve the sales but I didn't want this particular
piece (which I think is really outstanding, by the way)
to mislead you folks so that you would immediately
write Bev back a letter, inviting her attention to
certain of the sentences in her article, and asking her
if she has really gone out of her mind!
I'm sorry that I don't have more time right now to
tell you about the wonderful times Bev and I are having-
now that I'm back with Bev, every minute of every day
seems wonderful regardless of the little distractions
which seem so inherent in the situation over here.
We are having a rather important planning conference
this week-end in our civilian organization, and
perhaps when this is over Bev and I will be able to
send you a joint-newsy letter. Obviously, however,
we shall continue to rely on her writing talents,
because I really look bad by comparison in this field!
I'm glad to hear that you folks enjoyed your trip to
California - and I only wish that I could join Bev in
her trip to Nebraska next month. I'm sure that it's
quite apparent that my heart and thoughts will be
coming with her.
Sincerely,
Chuck
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Date
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1968, Apr. 3
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Subject
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Letters; Long-distance relationships; Marriage proposals
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Location
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South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Container
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B151, F6
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Format
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personal correspondence
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
