Question: I'm curious whether statistically these marriages work out or not, because you have particular couples but the man has been plucked out of the normal course of his life to function as a soldier, and the women—even if they are in their own communities—are under a lot of stress, so what people truly are in their normal lives might not be apparent.

Question: I wonder if, in your research, you've come across any records of women in the military who wanted to return with their Asian husbands?

Question: What can you say about the current policies and practices in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern countries where we have people based?

Question: I'm from the class of 1941. I've been very interested in what I have perceived to be a real change in women's expectations as a result of being forced into independence in ways we hadn't been before, doing all kinds of work we hadn't expected to be doing. Then, as the war was over and we became housewives and mothers, many of us turned up in the women's movement because we realized that we could do a bit more than buying a sewing machine.

Question: In your research, do you also look at the motivations of different US servicemen and if there's a common theme for the reason for taking war brides? Was it in terms of cultural integration or just the psychology of being in an environment where you're under stress and you don't have that emotional security, and a female is there? Then, as you mentioned, people come back and the marriages are not always as secure. Did you notice a common theme?

Question: I'm familiar with a community in Florida that employs a lot of young people from South Africa, and naturally nothing is global, but a lot of these people want nothing more than to marry an American. This is not new and it's, I'm sure, difficult to quantify, but have you found in your research any cases of young women who marry an American and then walk the streets paved with gold?