“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. as a Time and Material clerk. They cut gears for PT boats for the Navy, making me a Rosie the Riveter. I earned 80 cents an hour, working 48 hours a week.”