Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 4, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 4, 1943
Subject
Furloughs, Homesickness
Description
Howard describes his want to go home and see family and how he spent very little money on a ticket to the theatre.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-04-04
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-04-04
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
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 comes first so what can a guy like me do? Darling when I get my furlough I don’t think I’ll have to wear my red flannels because it will be warm and if it[‘s] cold I [can] wear my combat suit. As for me I won’t be cold anyway as long as I’m with you. You ought to be down here you could try every thing [sic] you want you [sic] and to see what they have at the W.A.A.C. [Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.] P.X. [Post Exchange]. Oh well if you need any thing [sic] [of] that ration up there
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just drop me a line and you’ll get it. I went to another show and I think maybe you’ll like it. (Happy go Lucky!) [sic] plus Hit Parade of 1943 [sic]. Any way [sic] if you see them both to-gether [sic] it[‘s] worth the [$] 1.54 I had to pay. I love you and miss you so much that I don’t know what to do. I’m still saving my money but if I don’t get home it will [be] meaning the money. I got to close now. I love you darling and may God keep you for me. Love
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. I’m very, very, very lonesome to day [sic].
April 4, 1943
Hi darling.
Well I just got the letter that your wrote March 30th and I still love you. Gee I wish I could go home at the same time that Norman has his furlough but one never knows. The army says training comes first so what can a guy like me do? Darling when I get my furlough I don’t think I’ll have to wear my red flannels because it will be warm and if it[‘s] cold I [can] wear my combat suit. As for me I won’t be cold anyway as long as I’m with you. You ought to be down here you could try every thing [sic] you want you [sic] and to see what they have at the W.A.A.C. [Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.] P.X. [Post Exchange]. Oh well if you need any thing [sic] [of] that ration up there
[Page 2]
just drop me a line and you’ll get it. I went to another show and I think maybe you’ll like it. (Happy go Lucky!) [sic] plus Hit Parade of 1943 [sic]. Any way [sic] if you see them both to-gether [sic] it[‘s] worth the [$] 1.54 I had to pay. I love you and miss you so much that I don’t know what to do. I’m still saving my money but if I don’t get home it will [be] meaning the money. I got to close now. I love you darling and may God keep you for me. Love
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. I’m very, very, very lonesome to day [sic].
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 4, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 2, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1074.