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I remember that day, we cheered. And then we heard about the cost and the casualties.
Olga Hopkins -

You need to know how you're gong to live, how you're going to cope.
Jennie Morris -

You're a a reminder of something awful that's happened for the other wives.
Jennie Morris -

It was the background in military life that developed and made it the relationship it was and is.
Jennie Morris -

She was horrified and said "I'm going to do something about this".
Jennie Morris -

A lot of information that I should have been given, I wasn't.
Wendy Parker -

It was thousands of pounds I missed out because it was over a 10 year period.
Jennie Morris -

My older brother Harvey said I should get married because it was embarrassing, his words, embarrassing, having an old maid for a sister.
Wendy Parker -

If you didn’t go, probably nobody else would be able to get there
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There isn't one of us, I believe, that would not be able to recall every hour of that 24 hour time when they were told about their husbands death.
Jenny Green -

I didn't have to explain that I don't have a dad, we just chatted.
Jackie Towl -

There was definitely a sense of, if your face fitted, if they like the cut of your jib, you get through. If they didn't, you're probably going to struggle.
Jason Sutton