Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, March 18, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, March 18, 1943
Subject
Military Life, Love,
Description
Howard describes a measles outbreak and ducking detail with his friend, Mike.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-03-18
Contributor
Will Kuball (metadata, digitizing and transcribing)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-03-18
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
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 again. I mean the whole company is and we can’t leave the company area. That means no P.X. [Post-Exchange] and [...]no showers. Well a lot [of] thing[s] worse than that could of [sic] happened. I haven’t heard any more about Phil yet because my mother hasn’t written as [of] yet. Well maybe tomorrow she will write. I haven’t heard from Bill yet either. Well darling I got another buddy now. His name is
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S/S [Safeguards and Security] George [illegible deletion] (Mike) DeBiasa and he’s keeping me strictly on the line. He’s got a certain [personality?] to do everything, even write letters. So he comes and gets me and we’ve been ducking detail so we got the time to write. All the N.C.O[s] [Non-Commissioned Officers] had a [---]meeting to night [sic] and we all caught hell (pardon my language) for not keeping the recruits on the ball [sic] such as keeping the barrack[‘]s floors clean and windows washed and the bed made, chairs polished and lockers straightened out [n]eat. Well darling, I wish I was with you tonight. I don’t know what to do or write anymore even though I love you like the the Devil. If I don’t get home pretty soon I [could?] be using a lot of slang again. Love
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you.
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 again. I mean the whole company is and we can’t leave the company area. That means no P.X. [Post-Exchange] and [...]no showers. Well a lot [of] thing[s] worse than that could of [sic] happened. I haven’t heard any more about Phil yet because my mother hasn’t written as [of] yet. Well maybe tomorrow she will write. I haven’t heard from Bill yet either. Well darling I got another buddy now. His name is
[Page 2]
S/S [Safeguards and Security] George [illegible deletion] (Mike) DeBiasa and he’s keeping me strictly on the line. He’s got a certain [personality?] to do everything, even write letters. So he comes and gets me and we’ve been ducking detail so we got the time to write. All the N.C.O[s] [Non-Commissioned Officers] had a [---]meeting to night [sic] and we all caught hell (pardon my language) for not keeping the recruits on the ball [sic] such as keeping the barrack[‘]s floors clean and windows washed and the bed made, chairs polished and lockers straightened out [n]eat. Well darling, I wish I was with you tonight. I don’t know what to do or write anymore even though I love you like the the Devil. If I don’t get home pretty soon I [could?] be using a lot of slang again. Love
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, March 18, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1056.