It never gets easier.
The notes from friends. From family. From readers.
“Dear Cindy, We just wanted you to know….”
And I learn another beloved person featured in War Bonds: Love Stories From the Greatest Generation has died.
Recently, two lovely War Bonds brides passed away within a month of each other.
Christine Jasley died on September 16th. She was anxious to be reunited with her husband, John, who died in October of last year.
Christine and John Jasley, 1944
Their story is told in Chapter 4 “Have a Little Faith.” A friend wrote, “Their marriage was truly a blueprint for all of us to follow.”
Then last week I learned of the death of Helen Loer.
Helen Miller Loer
On Saturday I will be at her Memorial Service and will read Chapter 7 “From Sailor to Preacher.” Her husband James, that sailor/preacher will be sitting in the front row, and my heart aches for him. The Loers had been married 68 years.
Our world is diminished with each loss, but I’m so very thankful that their stories remain.
Cindy Hval 
It IS sad to see them go, as they age out, Cindy, ESPECIALLY since they are from the greatest generation, and I know they weren’t quite as revered when they, first came home, because I saw the 1946 movie “The Best Years of our Lives”. Still, being from the greatest generation sure beats being a veteran of the one war we, clearly, lost, which is the war I returned from, when I came home from Vietnam.