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The REAL story of the GI brides: How British wartime girls married dashing U.S. soliders
The Daily Mail ^
| 6 October 2013
| Kieran Corcoran
Posted on 10/06/2013 9:07:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Another female whine fest?
I'm sure many of the soldiers weren't too happy with their brides either.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:11:28 PM PDT
by
ClaytonP
To: ClaytonP
yeah, that’s what it sounds like.
it’s why God made woman last.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:16:01 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: MinorityRepublican
No surprise that some quickie marriages don’t work out. What’s surprising is that any of them did.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:17:01 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: MinorityRepublican
When Daddy was in England he would often send back pictures souvenirs etc. One thing I noticed was a little printout telling them how to behave in Great Britain. Several things caught my attention such as not overtly displaying wealth as the British were having a really hard time even feeding themselves at times.
Also they were told not to complain about their coffee. After all, they said, they don’t think we can make a decent cup of tea. After they got over onto the continent Daddy said sure enough, the Brits would sometimes just stop and make tea.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:22:16 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: MinorityRepublican
The woman in that first story sounds like a complete nutcase. She gets married on the rebound with one US service man. She has the second person's children, then gets divorced, flies back to home in England, and some nice chap agrees to marry her and adopt her children, thinking she had them all out of wedlock, because it was worse to ever tell him the truth of a latent divorce.
So she has terrible judgment, then marries a truly nice guy, but lies to even him.
She is a hussy with poop for brains and family and friends who couldn't (or wouldn't) help her choose better.
It appears these women simply liked, as the story put it, that the US men made FIVE times more money than did the English men, and they came from the land of Hollywood.
They are bitc&es and the men were jerks.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:25:19 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: MinorityRepublican
With their pay five times that of a British Tommy, and all the glamour of Hollywood around them, the servicemen proved irresistible to the many young ladies who became GI Brides.
Newsflash: women marry men for money, aren't happy, blame the men.
In other breaking news, I stub my toe on the table leg, am not happy, blame the table leg. But only for a fraction of a second - I'm an adult, after all.
To: Zhang Fei
I grew up in a small town on the west coast. We had two “warbrides”. One English and one Aussie. Both raised families and seemed fine. I think this is bogus. They make it sound like this happened to most of them. The two I knew it was definitely not the case.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:28:40 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
To: MinorityRepublican
My Swedish great grandfather married my great grandmother, in Minnesota, soon after he arrived. She had come from Sweden to America at age 8.
They eventually had 7 children, with only 4 living to adulthood. One week diphtheria killed two.
The townsmen ran him out of town, for reasons I’ve never found out about.
We have discovered to come to America, he deserted the Swedish army and abandoned a first wife and children in Sweden.
Nobody knows what became of him.
To: truth_seeker
Story above spanned 1860s through early 1890s.
To: MinorityRepublican
cause God knows, there's no drunks womanizers or thieves in England... right??? feh
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:31:18 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Zhang Fei
No surprise that some quickie marriages dont work out. Whats surprising is that any of them did.
One of my friend's mother was a nurse during WW II from the U.K. She passed away a few years ago at the age of 90. She met Lou's father (U.S. Army Air Corps) while treating him in a British hospital. They got married after WW II and moved back to the U.S. She recounted about how lucky she was to find a man who was such a dedicated and loving husband and father to her children.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:32:13 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: ClaytonP
Yeah, and of course everything was bliss for brides in Britain. LMAO...
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:34:59 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
To: ConservativeMind
The woman in that first story sounds like a complete nutcase. Ah, but that sells books and happily ever after does not.
To: MinorityRepublican
My dad did the opposite. He was a Royal Air Force pilot training in Arizona. Came back many years later and married my American mother. They had a happy marriage of 49 years before he passed away last February.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:45:05 PM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: yarddog
After they got over onto the continent Daddy said sure enough, the Brits would sometimes just stop and make tea. My dad was a RAF pilot, and unless they were actually in the air, teatime was at 1600 sharp every single day. Even the tankers and infantry stopped what they were doing for tea in the afternoon, unless the Germans were actually shooting at them.
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posted on
10/06/2013 9:48:14 PM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I’m with you. I used to work with one of these “war brides” back in the early 80’s. She was a delightful woman to be around, perfectly happy with her husband and her life here in the US. We would talk about the places we had visited, the food, culture, and especially England(I’ve always wanted to visit-she said they could not pay her enough to go home-HA!) She was quite normal in every respect and I greatly cherished our friendship.
Sadly she got breast cancer and passed away in 1990.
I still miss talking with her.
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posted on
10/06/2013 10:05:37 PM PDT
by
snuffy smiff
(Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
To: truth_seeker
My great-great-grandmother came from Germany alone and married another German immigrant (who was a terrible drunk that one day just upped and walked out on the family).
It came out later that she had been a prostitute or something in Germany, and had left behind a daughter. Apparently it was rather a shock when the daughter tracked down her half-siblings and introduced herself after their mother died.
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posted on
10/06/2013 10:07:54 PM PDT
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
To: MinorityRepublican
My mother came to America on the Queen Mary in 1950 to marry my father. They met when he was stationed in W. Germany in 1948 during the Berlin airlift. He played on an intramural USAF baseball team and went to England for a weekend tournament, which is where they met. They corresponded for 2 years before deciding to marry, and their union lasted 43 years until my father’s death.
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posted on
10/06/2013 10:08:03 PM PDT
by
Prince of Space
(Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
To: trubolotta
The woman in that first story sounds like a complete nutcase. Ah, but that sells books and happily ever after does not.
These books are "divorce porn" for women. They read these marriage horror stories and then rationalize their own divorces.
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posted on
10/06/2013 10:21:54 PM PDT
by
ClaytonP
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