I lived in Truro, Nova Scotia when two mounties, both men, were wed in Yarmouth, both wearing their red serge dress uniforms.

Most of the wedding guests were also mounties, also in red serge.

They made headlines all over the country for weeks; there was an outpouring of support.

My maternal grandfather was a surgeon in the US Army Air Force Medical Corps during World War II.

He committed suicide in a spectacular way in July 1948, after he was arrested for what at the time was the felony of sodomy. Being quite wealthy, he posted $10,000.00 bail withing the hour - 1948 dollars - then later that day was found dead in a rented rowboat in a lake outside Spokane, Washington.

He made headlines all over the pacific northwest because he totally stymied the medical examiner with the cause of his death. Eventually they somehow figured out that he overdosed with insulin.

My grandmother initiated a legal action to have my grandfather's death ruled a suicide. I don't know how that turned out because my mother refuses to discuss it, she was told he had a heart attack.

I at time puzzle over whether I should initiate a legal action to have it declared a murder.