Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 23, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 23, 1943.
Subject
Loneliness, Military Life
Description
Howard misses Yve and all the men in his company left for town so he is all alone.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-03-23
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-03-23
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 23, 1943
Darling:
Well here I am. All alone in the commanding officer’s office working out my change of quarters, (CQ), in army language. Well to-morrow [sic] the company has off that means no duties but I’ll have to work just the same. You know it[‘]s funny. Every time the company has a day off I have to work such as when they had a beer party in the mess hall. I had to work K.P. [kitchen police] when they gave a farewell party when the last bunch of boys left to go back to Fort Knox. I was on guard and now there [sic] giving us a day off for doing such a good job with the recruits that just left and I got to
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draw C.Q. Oh well this is the army, Yve, and I guess I’ll have to take it. The C.O. won’t even give me a three day pass so I can look up Bill down the other side of Nashville and that’s only eighty miles away. The passes we do get when we get them are only good to go twenty miles away from camp and you can’t go any-where [sic]. Gee darling I miss you and I wish I could see you. I’ll bet that you’ll be the best looking gal at the Easter Parade. I wish I could be with you but the chances are about 10,000 to 1 against it, but I’ll be back some day and when I do if I hear the word army I [will] go nuts and if any of my nephew[s] want to join the army when they grow up I’ll make them change their mind. Gee everybody in the
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company took off for town to-night [sic] and I haven’t a friend to talk to. Darling will you marry me to-night [sic]? Answer in the next letter. Don’t change your mind about me even though it would be for the best. I love you so much that I wouldn’t want to make you unhappy if I thought that you would be unhappy I would never ask you. Gee darling if we wait until the war is over I’ll be an old man. Churchill say[s] its [sic] going to last two more years. That will give me three years of service and I don’t want that. One year is plenty for us to see if we still love each other. Remember that time we were going to stop seeing each other and it lasted
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just about three days and when I saw you walking home. Well three hundred and sixty five days I find is a tad longer. Well darling better days are coming and I hope they come soon. I love you and I hope you’ll wait for me. Lot of Love.
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. Don’t forget to take your pills. You never can tell when I’ll be home and I wouldn’t want to find you any other way than when I saw you last.
March 23, 1943
Darling:
Well here I am. All alone in the commanding officer’s office working out my change of quarters, (CQ), in army language. Well to-morrow [sic] the company has off that means no duties but I’ll have to work just the same. You know it[‘]s funny. Every time the company has a day off I have to work such as when they had a beer party in the mess hall. I had to work K.P. [kitchen police] when they gave a farewell party when the last bunch of boys left to go back to Fort Knox. I was on guard and now there [sic] giving us a day off for doing such a good job with the recruits that just left and I got to
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draw C.Q. Oh well this is the army, Yve, and I guess I’ll have to take it. The C.O. won’t even give me a three day pass so I can look up Bill down the other side of Nashville and that’s only eighty miles away. The passes we do get when we get them are only good to go twenty miles away from camp and you can’t go any-where [sic]. Gee darling I miss you and I wish I could see you. I’ll bet that you’ll be the best looking gal at the Easter Parade. I wish I could be with you but the chances are about 10,000 to 1 against it, but I’ll be back some day and when I do if I hear the word army I [will] go nuts and if any of my nephew[s] want to join the army when they grow up I’ll make them change their mind. Gee everybody in the
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company took off for town to-night [sic] and I haven’t a friend to talk to. Darling will you marry me to-night [sic]? Answer in the next letter. Don’t change your mind about me even though it would be for the best. I love you so much that I wouldn’t want to make you unhappy if I thought that you would be unhappy I would never ask you. Gee darling if we wait until the war is over I’ll be an old man. Churchill say[s] its [sic] going to last two more years. That will give me three years of service and I don’t want that. One year is plenty for us to see if we still love each other. Remember that time we were going to stop seeing each other and it lasted
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just about three days and when I saw you walking home. Well three hundred and sixty five days I find is a tad longer. Well darling better days are coming and I hope they come soon. I love you and I hope you’ll wait for me. Lot of Love.
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. Don’t forget to take your pills. You never can tell when I’ll be home and I wouldn’t want to find you any other way than when I saw you last.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 23, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1058.