She wanted to be a WAC officer. She wanted to join the Air Force Women’s Flying Training Detachment she’d been reading about in the paper.
-- Narrator (“Time To Get Married”)

Importance: After Bucky leaves Norma Jeane to join the merchant marines, Norma Jeane decides to make her own decisions about her life. Even though her in-laws said she could live with them, she decides instead to get a job in a factory that made airplanes for the war effort. She also imagined herself becoming a WAC officer.

In actual life, there was no music and there were no cues. You drifted into a scene not knowing if it was important or unimportant.
-- Narrator (“Time To Get Married”)

Importance: Norma Jeane notes that life is confusing to her because it does not include the musical clues and cues to indicate if something she was experiencing was important. She noted that it was possible to experience something and never know until later...