and related to that, from brianne, she's wondering if you found any instances of war brides being used as ramping up tensions in the cold war. >> oh, yes. there are some great stories about how war brides were used actually for propaganda in the cold war, not in a derogatory sense but using their stories of oh, they needed to flee or this is why they wanted to leave certain areas. so, yeah, there is a connection there. >> okay. from michael rogers, was the process to marry foreign prides so difficult for safety reasons or to discourage it or both, i guess? >> it was to discourage it, definitely. you can find an american lady, why do you want to do this now. and the fact they would go to the families and really do a lot of research on them to see where their allegiance was and why they were marrying, if they were marrying purely for money or things of that nature. so, i would say most of it was for discouraging. >> from mary jocelyn mcpherson, as the women waited to move to the u.s., how were they treated by their family and friends, especially if they were from access countries? were t