Letter to Yvette from Howard. April 12, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard. April 12, 1943.
Subject
Duty
Description
Howard asks about Yve's grandmother and describes how he spent the day initiating the new recruits.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-04-12
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
1943-04-12
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 12, 1943
Hello darling.
Here I am again. I got your letter a little while ago and I was just going to ask you where I could send a card to so your Grandmother could get it? Now I won’t have to ask. Well I[‘m] shure [sic] I won’t be home for Easter now because we’ve got training [or] just a what ever [sic] you want to call it for the next five weeks and nothing
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I can do to change it. It seem[s] as though that [sic] they know my name too well in the C.O. [Commander’s Office] room and I’m on every time [sic] there’s work to do. Well I got some news to-day [sic], Wednesday, at four-thirty in the afternoon we go out on a march for about eight miles then we got to make camp. We’ve got to give the recruits a little army life in pup tents. Well darling I had a hair cut [sic] to-night [sic] and what a job the barber
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did. You [illegible deletion] know this kind that fit[s] a bowl on your head and cut around it? Well you ought to see me. Well it will grow out in a week so I don’t have to worry much. Darling I love the army life so much that when this war is over I’ll buy some civilian clothes before I get home and leave the uniform here. I was asking my buddy what would he do just when he got out of the army and he said
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he’d go [illegible deletion] home to New York and kiss his wife and then go out with her and get drunk. The funny part of it is he don’t [sic] drink. I think I’ll do the same but I don’t think I’ll get drunk because I wouldn’t want to start any bad habits. Then the people would say (your [sic] just like [illegible deletion] sunshine) [sic]. The way it look[s] I’ll be marching Sundays for a bout [sic] another two or three weeks so if I don’t write every day [sic] it[‘s] not because I don’t love you it[‘s] because I can’t. I wish I could see
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you again though. It[‘]s been 129 days [and] 11 1/2 hrs. [hours] since I kissed you good by [sic] at the bus station and that seems like ten years. I’m going to go and get a card or something for your grandmother as soon as I can get off duty. I think I can make it by to-morrow [sic]. I hope so, anyway. I always did [illegible deletion] like your grandmother. She always seem[s] so friendly and so does your aunt. I got a letter from Betty to day [sic] and she asked
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me how I was and I told her that I couldn’t be better and [she] thinks [it’s] the truth. I go to church on Sunday. I don’t drink. I don’t go out with women of any kind, not that I couldn’t, but they don’t even interest me. There [sic] only one girl for me and if you don’t know who it is by now you better wake up. Darling I love you and the only way you could hurt me is by saying that you didn’t love me. If you ever said that I would be over [the] sea in a month.
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Just think darling, I’ve waited 347 days and out of that I’ve been and [sic] with a girl 17 days and that girl is you. That means I’ve been 330 days with out [sic] one and you think I’d go out with a W.A.A.C. [Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.] and fall in love with her? I wish you knew how I really felt about you. It can[‘]t be expressed in words or I’d express it but it[‘d] [be] the nicest feeling. I got to go now darling and I love you and miss you more than
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you’ll ever know. Lot of Love.
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. Will you marry me?
April 12, 1943
Hello darling.
Here I am again. I got your letter a little while ago and I was just going to ask you where I could send a card to so your Grandmother could get it? Now I won’t have to ask. Well I[‘m] shure [sic] I won’t be home for Easter now because we’ve got training [or] just a what ever [sic] you want to call it for the next five weeks and nothing
[Page 2]
I can do to change it. It seem[s] as though that [sic] they know my name too well in the C.O. [Commander’s Office] room and I’m on every time [sic] there’s work to do. Well I got some news to-day [sic], Wednesday, at four-thirty in the afternoon we go out on a march for about eight miles then we got to make camp. We’ve got to give the recruits a little army life in pup tents. Well darling I had a hair cut [sic] to-night [sic] and what a job the barber
[Page 3]
did. You [illegible deletion] know this kind that fit[s] a bowl on your head and cut around it? Well you ought to see me. Well it will grow out in a week so I don’t have to worry much. Darling I love the army life so much that when this war is over I’ll buy some civilian clothes before I get home and leave the uniform here. I was asking my buddy what would he do just when he got out of the army and he said
[Page 4]
he’d go [illegible deletion] home to New York and kiss his wife and then go out with her and get drunk. The funny part of it is he don’t [sic] drink. I think I’ll do the same but I don’t think I’ll get drunk because I wouldn’t want to start any bad habits. Then the people would say (your [sic] just like [illegible deletion] sunshine) [sic]. The way it look[s] I’ll be marching Sundays for a bout [sic] another two or three weeks so if I don’t write every day [sic] it[‘s] not because I don’t love you it[‘s] because I can’t. I wish I could see
[Page 5]
you again though. It[‘]s been 129 days [and] 11 1/2 hrs. [hours] since I kissed you good by [sic] at the bus station and that seems like ten years. I’m going to go and get a card or something for your grandmother as soon as I can get off duty. I think I can make it by to-morrow [sic]. I hope so, anyway. I always did [illegible deletion] like your grandmother. She always seem[s] so friendly and so does your aunt. I got a letter from Betty to day [sic] and she asked
[Page 6]
me how I was and I told her that I couldn’t be better and [she] thinks [it’s] the truth. I go to church on Sunday. I don’t drink. I don’t go out with women of any kind, not that I couldn’t, but they don’t even interest me. There [sic] only one girl for me and if you don’t know who it is by now you better wake up. Darling I love you and the only way you could hurt me is by saying that you didn’t love me. If you ever said that I would be over [the] sea in a month.
[Page 7]
Just think darling, I’ve waited 347 days and out of that I’ve been and [sic] with a girl 17 days and that girl is you. That means I’ve been 330 days with out [sic] one and you think I’d go out with a W.A.A.C. [Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.] and fall in love with her? I wish you knew how I really felt about you. It can[‘]t be expressed in words or I’d express it but it[‘d] [be] the nicest feeling. I got to go now darling and I love you and miss you more than
[Page 8]
you’ll ever know. Lot of Love.
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. Will you marry me?
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard. April 12, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1079.