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Western Maryland town reflects on the lives of WWII brides

Published 11/12/08

CUMBERLAND, Md. — Grace Elliott McElfish's signature, scratched into a mirror of the Lazarus store's bridal gallery 66 years ago, starts tentatively. The "G" is wobbly; the "a" looks like an "o."

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Emma Jane Foley Hoban searches for her name which she etched into a mirror in 1948 at the Lazarus Department Store in Cumberland. World War II era brides unveil a mirror Tuesday at Fort Cumberland Emporium during a ceremony commemorating their signing of the mirror in the early 1940s.
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But her last name shows a stronger hand. And the date, 1942, is followed by a period. It's a declaration amid the signatures of 135 World War II-era brides who etched their names into the looking glass from 1939 to 1948.

Eleven of the women, now in their 80s and 90s, gazed into the recently rediscovered mirror Tuesday and reflected on life during wartime in their western Maryland mountain town...

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