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She Was Engaged | Then She Met Him and Everything Changed | WWII Romance

She Was Engaged | Then She Met Him and Everything Changed | WWII Romance.. Catherine Reynolds stood in her Virginia garden wearing a diamond engagement ring, planning an October 1942 wedding to Robert Sullivan—her childhood sweetheart, the perfect match everyone expected. But Catherine had never felt the spark, had accepted the proposal from duty rather than desire, had resigned herself to a comfortable but passionless marriage. Then Pearl Harbor changed everything. Catherine volunteered for the Red Cross, and on a humid August evening at a Washington, D.C. servicemen's canteen, she met Lieutenant James Harrison—a Marine officer with two weeks before deployment to the Pacific who looked at her with an intensity that made her forget she was supposed to marry someone else. This is the true story of a woman who chose real love over safe engagement, who broke her promise two months before her wedding, who waited three years while the man she loved fought across the Pacific—Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu. Catherine faced her family's rage, society's disapproval, and the very real possibility that James would never come home. But she couldn't marry Robert feeling the way she did about James. She couldn't spend fifty years with someone she didn't love just because it was expected. Set against the backdrop of WWII's Pacific campaign and the home front's struggles, this is a story about courage that goes beyond combat—the courage to disappoint everyone to be true to yourself, to choose uncertain love over guaranteed security, to wait for a man who might never return because two weeks with him felt more real than a lifetime with anyone else.