Deborah

This one will be a special one.

Sure.

So here I go again, doing things crudely and probably very badly.

Honey, I want to get engaged on my furlough.

I needn't add that I'm anxiously and eagerly awaiting your reply.

Just say yes.

And here, Deborah recites from memory her reply from over 80 years ago.

My answer to you is yes, yes, yes.

Back at boot camp, time marched on.

And in the fall of 1944, Jerry received notice.

He was going to be deployed.

But before his deployment, he was granted a final furlough.

So he went home to see Deborah, where he gave her a ring.

Together they made plans for the future, talked about everything that lay ahead once he was home for good.

Then, standing on the subway platform in Washington Heights, they said their last goodbye.

I can almost feel it.

I remember kissing him and saying, this isn't good.

I don't know what's happening.

And I went into the train and I cried hysterically all the way till the last stop on that train.

Jerry's company was shipped off to England, where American soldiers were preparing to join the fight in mainland Europe.