This Dashingly Handsome Vet Looks Like a Movie Star–But Wait ‘Til You See His Wife

By Linda Rodgers Updated: December 28, 2016

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We still don’t know the backstory from this photo, except these are someone’s grandparents on the day they got engaged. Several sharp-eyed commentators have noted the grandfather’s pin from the U.S. Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. Others have compared him Kevin Costner or James Franco.

But it’s the poster’s grandmother who is getting the most props. Because you have to admit, she has the looks of a Hollywood starlet!

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After you finish sighing, take a look at these vintage wedding photos featuring veterans from many wars!

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1965 wedding

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One of their grandchildren posted this couple's photo on Reddit on their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married in 1965 during the Vietnam War.
1924 Service Wedding

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When Patricia Foley married Michael Joseph Bishop in 1924, it was the height of the Roaring 20s.
1946 Service Wedding

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Bob and Kathleen Lowe were married in 1946. "She waited throughout the war for me--and I for her," Lowe told the Daily Mail. They were married for 65 years, until his wife died of Alzheimer's.
1939 - Australia

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As war broke out, couples rushed to get married before a serviceman was deployed. This was taken in Australia, in 1939.
Australian Officer Wedding 1943

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Sometimes servicemen got married far from home. This Australian Navy officer got hitched in London, in 1943, to a young lady from Ireland.
1941 Service Wedding

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This Australian couple got married in 1941 in Indonesia, before his deployment. There was no time for a church wedding.
1961 Service Wedding

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There was no war going on in 1961, when Roy and Linda Hogan got married. She was Polish; he was from Missouri and stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. He taught her to speak English!
WW2 wedding

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She was in the U.S. Navy; he was in the U.S. Air Force. Their great-grandchild posted this photo to Reddit, so you know they both made it through World War II safely!
Australian Wedding Ww2

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This glamorous couple were both actors; he was in the Australian army. This was taken in 1940.
1942

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When this couple got married in 1942, he was on leave. After their wedding, they took a train to New York City for their honeymoon, where they watched the Rockettes and danced to a big band orchestra.
Double Wedding Ww2

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Here's a double service wedding, from World War II.
1940 wedding

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England, 1940. Notice the good-luck charm they're jumping over!
1943

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While Carole Landis, a Hollywood actress, was in England on a USO tour to entertain the troops, she met an Air Force captain named Thomas Wallace. This was their wedding in 1943.
Service Wedding 40s

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Another vintage wedding, circa 1940s.

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