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A story of love in wartime

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staunton2editsWe Two: A Story of Love and War
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February 1944: Sgt. John Harris, from a small town in Virginia and trained as an aerial photographer & gunner, arrives at Stansted, England with the U.S. 344th Bomb Squadron, the B-26 Marauders … part of the build-up to D-Day. Soon after, he meets Muriel Rumble, a student at the college in the nearby town of Bishop’s Stortford. Though World War II has brought them together, the war also threatens to destroy them.

This is the story of the author’s parents … drawn from the memories they shared, and as retold in the letters that John wrote to his parents back home in Staunton (Sally & Roller Myers, who lived on Institute Street) and the love letters he exchanged with Muriel … letters that are integrated into the book.  This tale explores the life of a young U.S. soldier so far from home and the Englishwoman he came to love.

Author Zoe Myers is a graduate of Christopher Newport College (now Christopher Newport University).  She spent many summers with her grandparents in Staunton, playing at the reservoir at the top of Institute Street and walking downtown to have a Coke float at Hogsheads’ Drugstore and visit the nearby bookstore & stationary shop.  She lives in Lynchburg.

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