There was so much loss even amid the victories. Ten months after D-Day, in April 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt died. The women cried like babies. There was a funeral procession when the president’s body was brought to Washington from Warm Springs, Georgia, and much public mourning, and the WAVES marched in a parade to honor him. People wondered whether the new president, Harry Truman, would be up to the job. Some of the women made individual trips to the White House, standing at night in the eerie quiet of Lafayette Square, where the sound of water dripping from the trees was the only
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