Posted on 10/06/2013 9:07:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
When Margaret Boyle took an American to be her husband in 1943, she was one of 70,000 British wartime women won over by their wealth and charm.
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.
They were offered free passage by the U.S. Army to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic.
But many found the American dream was not what they expected as the reality of life in the States set in once their husbands were out of uniform.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Since when does life turn out as planned?
My father met my mother in Unions Station in DC. She came there from MN for a job & he was preparing to ship to Europe during WWII. They arrived in the station at the same time their first day in DC.
While his ship loaded & the convoy gathered, they saw the sites of DC with their friends. Before he shipped to Europe he told my mother he would return and marry her. She laughed and snickered to her girl friends that night.
They wrote to each other during the war. (he still has the letters)
On his way home to Texas he had my grandfather send her a train ticket from DC to TX. They were married the night she arrived in Texas, in my grandparents livingroom. They were married 66 years. She died just over a year ago.
An incredible couple and incredible marriage. She was loved by everyone who met her. She was known here as “Swede”. 95% of the locals did not know her real first name.
My father has a great big hole in him since she is gone. I work with him almost every day. That somehow takes his mind off the loss.
So.. Yes the article is bunk. She did not come from England. But she did come from MN.
Sells more books that way.
But you knew that, didn't you?
Take a few personal stories . . . and British MSM rolls them out to have a dig at America (so it seems to me, and I’m British). . .
Just Look at what British women turned England into...
A socialist latrine.. with scant toilet paper..
It’s like Canada with more (asian)Indians both muslim and hindu...
They lost the cold war to Stalin.. by being more socialist than Stalin was..
They are not citizens they are subjects(serfs) of the Givernment..
(you know.......... like Canada)
A good deal of southern Sweden lost 1/2 to 1/5 of its population to immigration in quite a short time. The census records are quite amazing.
These gold diggers were upset that they actually had to cook dinner and wash dishes when they came to America.
The man who played Frasier’s dad in ‘Frasier’ was born and raised in Blackpool, Lancashire, and moved over to the US as a teenager with his older sister who had married an American serviceman. It always made me laugh to think that the actor playing an all-american charectar was actually from closer to Manchester than the one who played his home help.
Maybe liberals are subconsciously hinting that German Nazi soldiers would have been better, copying their french counterparts. this is definitely antiamerican piece that treats wwii veterans with horror and destroys their acts of heroism.
typical feminist trash piece for muslim pimps.
Gold diggers feel guilty and must project their hate by portraying the other as some kind of parasite as to deflect.
My best friend's dad met his mother while stationed in France during the war. She was always a wonderful lady and had the sweetest accent......
“A good deal of southern Sweden lost 1/2 to 1/5 of its population to immigration in quite a short time. The census records are quite amazing.”
Swedes were among the earliest settlers in NJ; they had settlements along the Delaware River (in the vicinity of Swedesboro today). When the Dutch lost northeastern NJ to the English, the Swedes were unable to hold onto their piece.
This sounds like the Feminazis most recent attempt to perpetrate a victimology.
I meant, “warbride”! No Freudian slip, there, please.
One of my good friends is a modern “war bride”; she met her American husband when he was stationed in England in the early ‘90’s. She left England and moved here with him, had a beautiful daughter my son’s age and finally got her US citizenship about 8 years ago. She was so excited to vote against Obama, both times.
Beautiful family, happy, successful. Sure there are bad marriages of every stripe but there are plenty of good ones.
Maybe next the Feminazis can write about those Asian brides who marry American men about 30 years older than them. Or would the gold digger meme not make the men look bad enough?
Albert Johnson?
My wife’s first husband was an American in the Air Force stationed in Britain. She married him at 18, and the first place she lived in the U.S. was Grand Forks, N.D. in January. She didn’t like that much. Her first husband proved to be an alcoholic, and she eventually divorced him. But not before she fell in love with life in the U.S. Fortunately, she met me, and she’d never move back to Britain. She’s not completely Americanized (she hates peanut butter and drinks tea three times a day), but she loves the U.S. Especially the wide open spaces.
A Yank soldier’s pay was five times of Tommy’s?
No wonder Tommy said of the Yanks, “Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, & over here”.
But were I there, I’d ten times rather marry an Englishwoman than any of the other war brides.
Mrs. BN is also a “war bride”. She’s a Yankee. This Georgia boy went north and stole one of their “honeys” in retaliation for the War of Northern Aggression.
Sherman may have burned everything in the county on his way to Savannah, but as far as I’m concerned, we’re even.
I got “a good ‘un”! 42 years and counting.
BTW, when we got engaged, I called my grandmother to tell her. Toward the end of our conversation I said, “There is one thing you need to know. She’s a Yankee.”
There was silence on the other end of the line for a while. Finally, my grandmother said, “Well, if you love her, I guess it’s all right.”
I do and it is!
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