Paula Bernice Roberts was swept off her feet by a passionate young World War II hero she met after her parents died. Her own father. 'He was so romantic and he loved my mother so much,' Roberts, who lives in Massachusetts, told Fox News Digital.
never knew that man when I was growing up.' She introduces U.S. Army Lt. Paul Roberts to the world in her new book, 'Sealed With A Kiss: The World War II Love Letters of Second Lieutenant Paul E. Roberts, 320th Rifle Infantry Regiment, United States Army.' The book is culled from 350 wartime letters the young officer from upstate New York sent to his future bride Bernice Getter.
My mom kept every single one of them. She never showed them to me. She never told me about them.' Lt. Roberts was raised in New York and joined the Army in 1943. He shipped off to Europe in 1944. The ennui of Army life, the terror of combat and his recovery from war wounds are interspersed with the intimate details of a passionate young man pining for his love.
More than anything, love torn apart by war and distance is the dominant theme of the letters and the book. 'Gosh, I love you, Sweetheart, I think about you all the time, night & day,' Roberts writes in another letter. 'As you said, it’s nice to be in love, especially when you know that the one you love, loves you and belongs to you.' That man, Paula Roberts said, never revealed himself to his children.
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