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Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 27, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 27, 1942
Darling
I’m sorry to hear that you don’t feel so good but that can’t be helped. I wish it could be for you[r] sake though. Gee I miss you a lot, it seems longer this past month than it did all the rest of the time…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 31, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 31, 1942
Dear Yve
How I wish I was there with you. Its been a long [time] since I saw you. How is every thing [sic] with my little darling? Are you as lonely as you say in your letters? I wish that you were not quite so…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 19, 1942
Hi Beautiful
What[‘]s cooking? I just got your date’s that you sent and they are very good but I still like the brownies the best. Well I just got back from Louisville and I had the best time I’ve had since I’ve…
Tags: aquaplane, Churchill downs, Ed Grube, Hike, Louisville, Military training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 15, 1942
Darling Yve
I haven’t much time to write because the[y] just told us to get our packs rolled for a few days out in the country. I know we got to go 15 miles before noon but that ain’t so bad. How are you? [D]o you…
Tags: Hike, Military training, Peep
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 4, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 4, 1942
Hi darling
How’s everything[?] I am very lonesome down here how about you[?] You won’t get any letters for about three days because I didn’t write any. You know it isn’t my fault though because I out on the…
Tags: Cowboy picture, Hike, money, shuttle shop
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 28, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 28, 1942
Yve Darling
I love you darling. I just got finished working K.P. all day to-day [sic] isn’t that a nice thing to do. y How would you like to serve and wash and dry dishes for about 200 guys three times a day. I…
Tags: Hike, K.P., Military life, Pine Camp
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 23, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 23, 1942
My little Darling
I just got back from a road march of 12 miles with light packs an and it was hot. [T]hey marched us right along a river. [W]ell Sunday I spent in Louisville. Our first Sarg. got married and he…
Tags: Hike, Military training, Roller coaster
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 25, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 25, 1942
Dear Yve,
I just got your box of candy and it was swell. I couldn’t be better. It was so thoughtful of you to send if. I knew you wouldn’t forget me. Well here I am just got an injection and my arm is a little…
Tags: Hike, Love, Military life
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910