By the summer of 1944, as the Allies moved into Belgium and Holland and it began to look like they had a chance to win the war, Sheila was at last posted to the European side of the English Channel, and was excited to think she would finally see some real action and have some adventures on the Continent.
She didn't expect it to change her life forever.
While sorting through her mother Sheila's letters, pictures, and poems after her death,...