“One timewhen we were going around I said, “If I get a job, willyou marry me?”- She said
“One timewhen we were going around I said, “If I get a job, willyou marry me?”- She said “Sure.” And she waited for me while I was in France.”“How many times have we not heard that the soldier atthe front wanted to get the war over with, to get out of the army, to be free to live hisown life? Or the familiar wish to buy a small farm and settle down? Or the longing to marry that girl back home and rear a family? Or the passionatedesire never to see a gun, and never to fight, again?”Interview with a WW1 American soldier – Newsweek-Volume 133 – Back to life: theemotional adjustment of our veterans – Photo: August 18 1919, a recently returnedsoldier’s wedding –The Indiana Album -- source link
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