The TV interviewer welcomes Cindy and I and says, “The whole Nation is rooting for you. How do you feel about your Army experience?”
I say, “The Army did a lot for us. They took care of us when we were wounded. Gave us a generous disability pension, and are paying for our College tuition, but they never should have separated us. This wouldn’t have happened.”
Cindy starts to cry on live TV and whimpers, “We needed to be together. They promised us.”
The TV Commentator decides crying wouldn’t wash on his program and turning to us with a big smile on his face asks, “So what do you kids plan to do now?” he has to repeat the question because I’m concentrating on calming Cindy down. Finally on his second try he gets me to answer.
I say, “We want to get married, go to college, and have a family as soon as we can afford a wedding. We want to get good jobs and have a real future so we can raise our kids the way we never were.”