Joan McLean Wall, 90, of Murray Bridges, South Australia, lives in Lovettsville, Virginia in the United States with her eldest son Bart. For thirty years Joan McLean Wall lived in the United States with her first husband, US Army Lt. Col. (ret.) Ray Hodgson who she met in 1942 in Sydney, on her birthday October 18 when she was 24 years old. (Michael Temchine for The Australian)