Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 20, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 20, 1943.
Subject
Loneliness
Description
Howard describes how lonesome he is and how he saw a famous boxer who fought Joe Lewis.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-04-20
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
1943-04-20
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 20, 1943
Hi darling:
Are you lonesome? Gee I wish I could drop in and see you like old times. Last night after I wrote you a letter I started to think of all the good times I’ve had with you. It started back to the day that I just met you at the high school. You and Gil were in the corner when I walked in with Roy. Gee them [sic] were the days. Well better days are coming or will come after the war ends if it ever ends. This war better end pretty soon because I’m getting sick of being so far away from you. When I was home I use to think I was a long way from you but look at me
[Page 2]
now. Only 14 hundred miles. Well darling I saw Billy Conn today. He’s one of the fighter[s] that stayed in the ring with Joe Louis [for] thirteen rounds. Well he’s going to be an instructor for the twelfth division. You know, sports and all that. We’re going to have a visit from General Henry, a two star boy and General Stevens, a three star to-morrow [sic] so we’ll have to work a littler harder to-morrow [sic.] They are coming around to inspect the 20th division and you never know where they will show up one hr. [hour] latter. Well a boy in (G)Company just dropped in on me to pay his respects and telling me all his women trouble. It’s like this: he[‘s] going to be married May first and he’s romancing around like an old woman. Well darling I love you and I wish I could tell you in person. I love you so much I don’t know what to do. Love
Howard.
April 20, 1943
Hi darling:
Are you lonesome? Gee I wish I could drop in and see you like old times. Last night after I wrote you a letter I started to think of all the good times I’ve had with you. It started back to the day that I just met you at the high school. You and Gil were in the corner when I walked in with Roy. Gee them [sic] were the days. Well better days are coming or will come after the war ends if it ever ends. This war better end pretty soon because I’m getting sick of being so far away from you. When I was home I use to think I was a long way from you but look at me
[Page 2]
now. Only 14 hundred miles. Well darling I saw Billy Conn today. He’s one of the fighter[s] that stayed in the ring with Joe Louis [for] thirteen rounds. Well he’s going to be an instructor for the twelfth division. You know, sports and all that. We’re going to have a visit from General Henry, a two star boy and General Stevens, a three star to-morrow [sic] so we’ll have to work a littler harder to-morrow [sic.] They are coming around to inspect the 20th division and you never know where they will show up one hr. [hour] latter. Well a boy in (G)Company just dropped in on me to pay his respects and telling me all his women trouble. It’s like this: he[‘s] going to be married May first and he’s romancing around like an old woman. Well darling I love you and I wish I could tell you in person. I love you so much I don’t know what to do. Love
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 20, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1219.