Apparently she knew when we were divorcing that I didn't really want it to happen. I do remember her suggesting once that I oppose it, but I didn't th...ink I had any right to." She paused and half smiled, "Anyway, she's going to write to Peter, very gently, asking what he was going to do. It will be a lot easier if he divorces me. If I divorce him, well my reasons are a lot weaker, and he might oppose it. So we want to encourage him to lead the way. I guess he'll get the letter tomorrow or. Silent sobs wracking her whole body. At this moment she knew all her fears were true. Spc4 Jake Maddock died a hero in some dirty, far off land that no one in the prairies of Nebraska could either know the location of or even care about. It was not fair. Ann and Jake had barely begun their life together. And now it was over, finished. ‘Mrs. Maddock? Are you there?’ Picking up the receiver Ann said simply, between the tears, ‘Yes.’ ‘Your husband, Jake was badly wounded near the town of Basra.. .. no... no... Papa," she stammered shyly. She turned slightly away, averting her eyes from her father and his loins.Her father came and stood in front of her. His eyes were roaming all over her voluptuous body, so much of her young body was so deliciously revealed by what she was wearing."You look gorgeous, Laura... absolutely beautiful... so delicious to look at."She kept looking down shyly, averting her eyes from his face."Why, darling... are you angry?"Slowly she shook her head to mean. I had a perfectly good excuse for dropping in at my home with him -- I really did have a book he could use on the assignment, and he really was my student, and yes I had probably broken one or two rules in the teachers' code about being alone with students, but nobody ever enforced those rules on women teachers. They were there to keep the male teachers off the more advanced girls. We went up the steps and entered my home, and I got the book, and I heard myself say: "Would you like something.