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- Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 8, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 8, 1943
Hi Angel:
How’s everything with you to-day [sic]? Here it is Saturday night and I’m all alone and haven’t got anyone to talk to ever. Gee I wish you were here. On second thought I don’t want you to come…
Tags: furloughs, Homesickness, longing
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 25, 1943
Darling:
Just received your letter and I don’t blame you for feeling the way you do about me not coming home. I feel that way to[o]. After waiting over four months and expecting a furlough and then don’t get…
Tags: furloughs, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 4, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 4, 1943
Hi darling.
Well I just got the letter that your wrote March 30th and I still love you. Gee I wish I could go home at the same time that Norman has his furlough but one never knows. The army says training…
Tags: furloughs, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1945
March 14, 1945
Wed-night,
Dearest darling wife + no kids
Well here it is another day and I got three letters from you to day [sic] dated the 14th, 15th, and 16th. I got that snap shot that Pauline took of you and I think its [sic] good so I’ll…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling
Well here I am again, just a little boy who can’t forget that he’s got the most beautiful girl in the world back in [S]outhbridge waiting for him till the war is ended. Darling I sure love you, why today I went to town and I missed you…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1943
Dear Yve
How is every little thing with you tonight? I haven’t written to you for the last two days because I was working to [sic] a hours out on the range, but today I got off a little easy instead of doing a lot of work on the range I had to take…
Tags: duty, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 8, 1943
Dear Yve:
I just got the box of cookies that you sent and there [sic] good and I got two letters from you to-day [sic] to [sic]. Well I haven’t done much to-day [sic] but at seven o’clock to night [sic]. They lined us all up and and we had to have…
Tags: Homesickness, Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 26, 1944
Nov. 26, 1944
Afternoon
Dearest Mushy Mush,
We’re having some terrible weather down here lately. Its [sic] been raining for the past three or four day [sic] and it makes me so lonesome. I got a nice letter from you to day [sic] which helped a lot…
Tags: Homesickness
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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