“Our romance started in April 1944. I was a senior in high school and Ed had just signed up for service in the U.S. Nary. Ed went to boot camp in Sampson, N.Y.. I graduated high school on June 4, 1944 and applied for a clerk’s job in Watson Flagg Machine Co. in Patterson, N.J. … read more »
Around 1940, when I was 17 and fresh out of high school, I was working my first job as a secretary to four realtors and an insurance agent. I had a friend named Dorothy VanBushirk, now deceased, whose husband was in the military. After receiving the dreaded news that he had been killed in action, … read more »
At the first notes of the buglers’ “Taps,” the riveter bowed her head. The veteran beside her saluted. The vet had his memories of flying World War II planes. The riveter could remember building them back then — and tell you about how she’s still building them now. At 95, Elinor Otto is still punching … read more »