They had their whole lives to look forward to - if only their husbands could survive Vietnam.
"You think your parents are still upset?" Robert asks.
Sharon glances at him, acutely aware of his altered looks. His long sideburns shaved off; the rest of his dark hair trimmed by the barber so close to his scalp that the waves usually framing his broad face have disappeared.
Is he asking about her insistence on coming with him to Ft. Knox? Or about something more basic – Sharon marrying him right before the start of his two-year active duty commitment?
Her hair blows around her head. The microscopic hairs on Robert's head don't move a fraction. Her mother whispered to her last night, "Why is his hair so short?" Obviously her mother doesn’t know anything about the army. And the nightly television news shots of men fighting in Vietnam are too blurry to see the men’s hair length ...
READ MORE ABOUT SHARON GOLD AND THE OTHER THREE NEW OFFICERS' WIVES in MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL. And in the future look for the sequel to this Sharon Gold novel.
Phyllis Zimbler Miller is a former Mrs. Lieutenant and lives with her husband in Los Angeles. The co-author of the Jewish holiday book “Seasons for Celebration,” she has written a success guide for teens (www.flippingburgersandbeyond.com).
