Disclaimer in chapter 1.

This is a flashback on the sole purpose of I'm not sure of Q's proposalJ At least I'm updating;)

Thank you Meethrill for the review!

Chapter 16

A Promise before the War

Angela Jackie sat on the edge of the rock washing her toes in the tide. The sun was setting over the ocean casting a golden glow onto the ocean, while the sand sparkled like diamonds. Her mom rested on the beach propped up on the lunch basket writing in her journal. Her dad snuck up behind her scooping her up in a big bear hug.

"Take off!" He shouted into the wind as he whirled his daughter around in the air like a plane. Yippee she squealed. She closed her eyes, aiming her face to the sun as the wind whipped her hair back and against her face, she loved to fly and wished to one day be a pilot like her dad, just so she could experience moments like these. Her mom laughed as her father took Angela Jackie in for a landing beside her mother. Angela Jackie was in a giggle fit before something she had learned in school set in.

"What's wrong Angel?" Her father inquired noticing the sudden emotion change.

"Daddy today in school we learned about Hitler." Angela Jackie noticed her parent's tense at the mention of the name.

"Tommy Baker said today that his daddy told him that the US might go to war with Hitler." Her dad shifted in the sand. "Daddy I'm scared both you and mommy are in the army and the navy if we go to war…" Her dad picked her up and cradled her while her mom stroked her hair.

"Sweetie I'm right here, and with the baby coming I can't go to war, so I'll always be with you." Her mom reassured. Her dad's eyes drifted unsure how to touch such a topic.

"Hitler is a very bad man, and eventually we may go to war against him and Japan, and if that were so I would go to war." Angela Jackie's lower lip began to tremble. "If that were so we need to make a promise." Her mother looked up, enticed by her husband's words.

"What type of promise?" The little girl inquired.

"If something happened to one of us in case of the war, we have to promise to move on, its good to remember the past, but not to dwindle on it, we'd have to look toward the future understand?" The family nodded in understandment, then they stood and packed their belongings, they would comb the beach for seashells and then return to hear a broadcast from President Roosevelt. Angela Jackie weaved her fingers within' her mom and dad's, no doubt she was at peace here, but there was something missing…something distant…

I know its short, but I thought it would be nice to give a more personal touch to the story and foreshadow what's to come ;).