Book excerpt: Based on a true story, I'LL REMEMBER YOU is a poignant and bittersweet love story, a portrait of a hasty courtship and marriage in the America of 1943, exploring real communication problems that existed between two strangers in an intensely stormy home front America, played out against a backdrop of anti-Semitism, racism and the uncertainty of war and told from both perspectives - an idealistic, proud small town Jewish girl and a complex young soldier from Brooklyn with horrific childhood memories of death and destruction in another war.. These memories give him unique insight into duty and his own mortality. but contribute to a relationship fraught with doubts and anxieties as the couple coast along on the quicksand of their hurried vows..