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This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories,

and we tell stories about everything here on this show,

from the arts to sports

and from business to history, and everything in between, including your stories.

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Our next story, well, it's one about service, love, and sacrifice.

Let's follow Eileen Hall's incredible journey across Europe as she searches for her husband

in the middle of World War II.

Eileen was a member in the Women's Army Corps, or WAC.

We got together with Eileen and her daughter Sherry, who both live in Canton, Ohio.

Here's Eileen. I'm from Canton, Ohio. Here's Eileen.

I'm from Canton, Ohio.

I was born in 10, 11, 23,

and my mother and dad had a restaurant in downtown Canton,

and we had a hotel up above the restaurant,

and that's where I was raised. We lived right across the street from McKinley High School so all I had to do was walk for high school was walk

across the street and go to school. After my mother made it to my high school graduation and shortly after that she passed on.

And my dad remarried and I felt very uncomfortable at home with a different mother really.

And you were working at Kempkin Rollerbearing Company.

So it's a long time, that's 75 years ago, you know, so I'm trying to

remember a lot of it I'll never forget. And there I met a girl and we became friends and we

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