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"What a beautiful sight stretched before our eyes as we steamed towards the docks in Wellington harbour. The city clothed in lush green foliage stretched before us together with the vividly coloured roof tops of the house scattered on the hills like a huge vividly coloured rainbow welcoming us. Was this our Utopia? We believed it was. " Louis Carr Unfortunately we left our own trail of severed limbs and torn torsos across the battlefi eld of the world. Neat little white crosses in long orderly rows like perpetual sentinels guarding the battlefi elds of the world......That can't be my lifeblood staining the mud, the water and sky... It can't happen to me. Not now! I have too much to live for...Carry on men!...Win the war...! Win peace!.... Make them pay for my arm, my leg, my sacrifi ce. Please make my lonesome sacrifice worth the price I had to pay......Make my little white sentinel of a cross a beacon for peace on earth and goodwill toward men!.......win the war for me and hold the torch of peace high for the whole world to see. Do it for me ...... Hank Henderson ....... nothing could have dimmed the sound of the people on the docks singing "Now is the Hour" nor could it stop the tears of the broken-hearted Marines on deck. We were going to war and we wondered if we would return to the country and the people we had grown to love ......Rodney E.Hatch ....... Some found peace in their hearts by revealing their secrets to me, a total stranger. Many problems have been solved, but mostly this has been a marvellous journey for women to look back and recall those golden years of WW11 ....... Joan Ellis

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My name is Joan Ellis. I am the author of 'A String of Pearls'. A book published in 2006 which is a compilation of letters and stories from New Zealand woman and US marines who tell how it was to grow up in a world at war and what it was like for them in New Zealand during WW11. I am at present working on a sequel to that book and also working on my life story which tells of growing up during the depression years, and how the women of that era coped with those bleak days, and the result of the sacrifices they made to ensure their children were educated in a manner which enabled them to gain worthwhile employment in the post war years, I can be contacted at joelde@paradise.net.nz

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