Musical Accompaniment: Emotions by Brenda Lee

A soldier from New York leaves his sweetheart to go with his regiment to Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina in 1917.

Unromantically, my first thought is they don’t look like a real couple. They look like they’re playing the part of separating lovers.  There’s no indication it was staged though. I’d guess their love affair soon evaporated and that they would have gotten over each other quite easily.

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