Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 10, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 10, 1942
Subject
Military life
Love-Letters
Description
He just figured out he isn't getting shipped to CA or AK for now. He has had a blue couple days so he went to a movie. He feels really bad for not dancing with her.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-09-10
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
192-09-10
Coverage
Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Correspondences
Text
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept 10, 1942
Darling:
I just go finished reading your letter and I feel much better now, I just found out to day [sic] that I’m not going to Arkansas or Calif. I’m going to stay here for the present and as for a promotion I don’t know. Gee you know how you make me homesick when you talk about all those places that we used to go.
[Page 2]
[Y]ou said in your letter that when and if I go out that I could have a good time and nothing would remind me of old times. You dead wrong because I can’t go any where’s [sic] without thinking of you when I go to the show. I sometimes look around to see if you are sitting side of me. I let you in on a little secret way to something. I had an auful [sic] blue two weeks, I was never so downhearted in my whole life as I have been. [T]hings
[Page 3]
haven’t been going just right down here and you know me? Well darling I went out on the Holiday and saw the picture (Holiday Inn) and it was swell. Gee darling I love you so very much it hurts me inside but when this war is over I’ll never leave you for 24 hrs. They had a dance for all the boys that are leaving for Calif. to-night [sic] but I didn’t go because I don’t even care to dance with anybody
[Page 4]
but you. I’m sorry for not going dancing that night when I was home. I felt auful [sic] about that and now every time I think of it I seem to have a pain in side [sic] of me. It’s a feeling that you just can’t express in words. You know it[‘]s funny I get an auful [sic] funny feeling every time I write you. [I]t’s [sic] seems that you were here right be side [sic] me and there I go again. I love you darling and I coming home soon (to our home I mean). Lots of love.
Howard
[The following is written in postscript]
(I love you)
Sept 10, 1942
Darling:
I just go finished reading your letter and I feel much better now, I just found out to day [sic] that I’m not going to Arkansas or Calif. I’m going to stay here for the present and as for a promotion I don’t know. Gee you know how you make me homesick when you talk about all those places that we used to go.
[Page 2]
[Y]ou said in your letter that when and if I go out that I could have a good time and nothing would remind me of old times. You dead wrong because I can’t go any where’s [sic] without thinking of you when I go to the show. I sometimes look around to see if you are sitting side of me. I let you in on a little secret way to something. I had an auful [sic] blue two weeks, I was never so downhearted in my whole life as I have been. [T]hings
[Page 3]
haven’t been going just right down here and you know me? Well darling I went out on the Holiday and saw the picture (Holiday Inn) and it was swell. Gee darling I love you so very much it hurts me inside but when this war is over I’ll never leave you for 24 hrs. They had a dance for all the boys that are leaving for Calif. to-night [sic] but I didn’t go because I don’t even care to dance with anybody
[Page 4]
but you. I’m sorry for not going dancing that night when I was home. I felt auful [sic] about that and now every time I think of it I seem to have a pain in side [sic] of me. It’s a feeling that you just can’t express in words. You know it[‘]s funny I get an auful [sic] funny feeling every time I write you. [I]t’s [sic] seems that you were here right be side [sic] me and there I go again. I love you darling and I coming home soon (to our home I mean). Lots of love.
Howard
[The following is written in postscript]
(I love you)
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 10, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 28, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1179.