In her first year in nursing school Grenfell began writing to a sailor in the South Pacific at the request of his sister, Grenfell's roommate. Through their long-distance correspondence and a few short visits when he was home on leave, Grenfell and her future husband fell in love. She visited several years later and saw the lists of names of men who died that day, of which her husband could have been one. They were married in 1946 after Ralph came home from the war. Everything we had we worked for.
People take things for granted now.
I'm not saying we're better for it, but we treasure the anticipation of achievement more, looking back on those days.