A Marine’s Letters
A Love Story (When Life Was Real)
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"Until death do us part." Yes, Virginia there are still couples who get married and stay married to each other until the end. A Marine's Letters is a story of such a marriage. Read about a lifetime that spanned the second World War and lived through many changes.
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Letters of a marine (1941–1946) to his family and girlfriend. Read about experiences of a marine raider in the South Pacific during WWII. Letter after letter takes you through a phase of a young marine’s life and how he lived his life later.
About the Author
Gloria Mills Mallamas was born on July 7, 1923, in a log cabin at Barn, West Virginia. She was the second child of Thelma and Johnny Mills. They were all packed to move to Besoco when everything had to be put on hold for her arrival. She graduated from the Egeria High School in 1941 and attended Beckley College. Gloria worked for Western Union Telegraph Company as an teleprinter operator until her retirement in 1971. She wrote short stories, some of which were published in the Briar Patch, a West Virginia anthology, and Grit. In recent years, she has had several articles published in the Orlando Sentinel. She is published in The West Virginia South Magazine in the first issue, October 2005. She won first place in WVS Writing Contest, sponsored by The Mountain State University. Gloria has always been interested in family history and family stories. She wrote a history of the Keaton Mills Cemetery in 1981. Since the death of her husband of forty-nine years in 1997, she presently lives in Florida in the winter and West Virginia in summer.