The Very Thought of You (Stevens Island Book 8)

The Very Thought of You

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Always and Forever by Sarah Bates.

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Her fingers curl, then clench into a fist as she receives him, but her wrist is bent back in surrender and soon her open hand is searching his breast with a caress. It is their first kiss. At the Old Homestead Motel, the crummy motor court where the wartime housing shortage has landed Cora, our couple reunites with their friends. Cora obviously is quite happy with Fixit. But Dave is exhausted and soon Janet is watching over him like a mother looking down upon her sleeping babe.

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After the other couple returns, Dave takes Janet home—it is 3 a. On the Wheeler front porch they both acknowledge the impossibility of their situation: Dave has a date with a troop train, perhaps as early as this morning, and they must part not knowing if they ever will see each other again. Inside, hell awaits Janet. Ellie tries to help Janet but is ordered to bed.

Wheeler confronts her, demanding to know: Wheeler orders everyone else from the room and two kindred souls join once again: The war that brought Dave to her is tearing him away, and there is nothing she can do about it. Pop gently reminds her that people have always had ways of living through everything. Then, revealing the depths of their bonds, she shows that she is his champion, just as he is hers.

You held this family up when I went to pot. In the morning, women war workers filter through the plant gates, past the guards, and into the giant parachute assembly area.

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That Fixit is a walking vitamin tablet! After finishing their shift, however, they are surprised to find both their guys waiting for them outside. The troop train has been delayed and in the meantime, Dave has bought a wedding ring. With the help of Ellie and her dad, pretty clothes are spirited out of the house without the others knowing. Soon, Dave and Janet are married at a wartime wedding chapel where every branch of the military seems to be represented.

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The housecoat Janet wears in the next shot tells us that the marriage has been consummated in the purity of the flames. They are solemn now, and try to find the words needed to face what lies ahead.

They seem to know that their rash union could be a mistake, but Janet is sure their marriage is right: Things you see I never saw before. Her mother can only express her shattered hope with a statement that also is a dagger to her husband: I wanted them to profit from my mistake. You went ahead and got hooked despite my advice. What kind of marriage have you got? Janet knows how to defend herself against the words of her sister, but she is unprepared to defend herself against what Molly does next.

While Janet is at work, Molly intercepts a telegram and, over the next few days, several letters from Dave, making Janet feel as if she really were a war widow, abandoned by the man she loves. Fortunately, Dave connects with a phone call to Janet at the parachute factory. Until this moment, neither had heard from the other since the wedding night, leaving both in agony. Dave tells her to meet him in San Diego where they will be able to spend one last night together.

After work Janet storms into her house and tells Molly and her mother that she is moving out to live with Cora.

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With the help of Fixit, they manage to get a tent on the beach with a small grill to cook their food. Their last night together in the tent on the beach seems romantic, but in the morning dive bombers start flying practice bombing runs and wake them up: As the end draws near Janet becomes anxious: After he hears the bugle sound at the nearby army camp, they get up and prepare to part. All my love, all my life. Dave walks away, and Janet stands silent on the beach wrapped in her blanket. With eyes brimming over, she waves good bye.

In the following scenes, Janet endures some of the brightest and darkest moments of her life, but as her Pop explained earlier, people have always survived these things. Cora, and Fixit, and Dave and Janet survive, too. The optimistic resolution of their problems makes this an effective wartime propaganda film, but it is more than mere propaganda.

The human understanding and insight herein are priceless, telling us so much about the people who fought and won the war. He married her, bedded her, and then, unlike Dave in our movie, ditched her. The war helped rush people into relationships that were unwise, but it also created opportunities, both personal and professional, that were not there before the war.

With a job, and responsibility, and new people in her life, she blossoms into a woman. For many Americans, the war gave them a new start, a new confidence, and greater purpose and meaning.

In this and in other Hollywood films, this terrible war is seen as the beginning of the best years of our lives. When we see the war portrayed in such a positive way, we can sometimes forget its cost. For the record, America suffered around , military deaths, with British and Commonwealth deaths more than , Our losses, however, amounted to a fraction of the military deaths suffered by Germany 5,, , Japan 2,, , and the U.

Because our main enemies, Germany and the U. Stalin had to settle for the booby prize, and set up replicas of his oppressive regime in eastern Europe which along with the USSR itself, were unable to compete with the more dynamic nations of the west. The communists tried to cope with this by turning their nations into what amounted to giant prison camps, but eventually the people rose up to knock the walls down, and communism in Europe collapsed.

While The Very Thought of You sheds light on that crucial time in our history, not all of it is positive. Yes, Cal is a nasty guy, much like his mother, but it is disturbing the way he is mocked for his physical disability. Those around him treat him as a shirker, calling him cruel names, simply because the doctors have classified him as unfit for service due to his underdeveloped heart. I once knew a man who, due to a medical problem, was classified 4-F during the war. Despite this, he looked perfectly healthy and some regarded him as a shirker.

Inflamed with jealousy, some soldiers without girls did all they could to humiliate this man with two. His wounds from this were lasting, and for the rest of his life he despised soldiers, even when that was not fashionable. His health problem worsened with age, and he died before the age of

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