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- Tags: Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 17, 1942
Darling Yve,
I have been so darn busy I haven’t been able to write. I been on the go all the time. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t want to write but some times [sic] it impossible. In your letter you think I…
Tags: Blackout, Love, Military life, Passing out
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 5, 1942
Darling Yve,
I love you and this is going to be a short letter. I think your [sic] wonderful. I love those blue eyes and the dimple when you brush your teeth. I love the way you comb your hair. I love you the way…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 8, 1942
Yve Darling
I just got your letter telling me how lonely you are, well I feel the same way about you. I love you so much it hurts. At night just before I go to bed I got a lot of time to think and I think of all…
Tags: Love, Military life, Truck
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 14, 1942
My darling little Yve
I haven’t had a letter from you for three days and I wonder if your mad. Sunday night I went to the show and after the show I came by the officers club and they were having a dance. It was…
Tags: Crying, Half-Track, Love, Officers club, song, Star-Dust
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 Sarty, March 18, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 18, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got the letter that you wrote the 15[th] of this month and I still love you. Well it[‘]s raining like the Devil to-day [sic] and I got wet twice. Well I’m quarantine[d] with the measles…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 6, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 6, 1942
Dear Yve:
How are you feeling to-day [sic][?] here it is ten o’clock in the morning and I’m writing you a letter from my little office. Darling I miss you a lot and I was feeling kind of blue last night so I went…
Tags: A Yank at Eton, Film, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 9, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 9, 1942
[The following is written in postscript at the top of the letter]
P.S. Address my envelop like this (P.F.C. Howard Sarty) now
Darling
How are you? You know I hope that Lil is as happy as you think she is but to…
Tags: Basketball, Love, Private first Class, Robert
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 13, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 13, 1942
Hi Darling
How’s every little thing and all the big ones to[o][?] I sent the cookey [sic] box back the other day did you get it yet? I hope Lil is happy but it don’t seem that they will get along too good…
Tags: Bat Taylor, Betty, Film, Hollywood, Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 15, 1942
Hi Yve
How have they been treating you back home[?] I got a couple of boys around me bothering me. They keep telling me that you are going out and everything while I’m in the army but I keep telling them that I…
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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