SOMETIMES YOU JUST don't know what it is that you just don't know. Referring to the "Proxy Marriage" article posted on May 28th in which the Mother of the Bride stood in for the Groom who was deployed, an old Army buddy of mine wrote

"Hey, Just finished going thru latest update to the 'CPT Patti' page. I must comment on the Army times article on the Proxy marriage of the deployed soldier.

You might be interested to know that you actually know someone who was married this way over 19 years ago. The situation (husband, a dashing no-time-in-grade 2LT, sent to Germany for first assignment, while future wife...[waited behind in the USA]...made it necessary for the couple to use the proxy method.

We became aware of this method when a Russian Dissident made the news by using it to escape the USSR. His girlfriend made it to the west and he was able to use the Montana Proxy thing to legally leave the USSR."

Curiouser and curiouser.