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Mrs Lieutenant by Phyllis Zimbler Miller

In the spring of 1970 four newly married young women come together at Ft. Know, Kentucky, when their husbands go on active duty as officers in the US army.

Different as these four women are, they have one thing in common: their overwhelming fear that, right after these nine weeks of training, their husbands could be shipped out to Vietnam - and they could become war widows.

Sharon is a Northern Jewish anti-war protestant who fell in love with a ROTC cadet; Kim is a Southern Baptist whose husband is intensely jealous; Donna is a Puertorican who grew up in an enlisted man's family; and Wendy is a Soutyern black whose parents have sheltered her from the brutal reality of racism in AMerica.

Read Mrs Lieutenant to discover what happens as these women overcome their prejudices, reveal their darkest secrets, and are initiated into their new lives as army officers' wives during the turbulent Vietnam War period.