Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 22, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 22, 1943.
Subject
Loneliness, Furloughs
Description
Howard describes how much he misses Yve and how he thinks he may being crazy.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-04-22
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
1943-04-22
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky.
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 22,1943
Hello darling:
Well Here I am again. I got a letter from you to-day [sic] and in it you say you told your sister that I wouldn’t yell or whistle, there [that’s] where your [sic] wrong, Yve. I had time to go up to the club where they have the radio show. I think I would make quite a bit of noise. Darling I’m glad to hear that your grandmother is better, and another thing don’t worry about me going swimming with a lot of beautiful girls because first of all it[‘s] too cold yet and second there’s no beautiful girls down here. At least I haven't seen any and anyhow who wants to? All I ask is for the army to give
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me a furlough and I could go home and see the most beautiful girl there is. As for gills I don’t know what they are but all fish have them so you couldn’t of been hot there so don’t worry. Well today was dull. I saw the General and his staff walk by, and as for the weather is [sic] [it] was raining all day. Well it’s getting bad down here. The army won’t give me a permit to drive but I had to go out to day [sic] and drive a truck to prove to them I can drive. Gee darling I miss you to-night and it’s so quiet here you could hear a pin drop. Gee if I could only see you maybe I could stand to go another four months, and to think that I enlisted. I think I should of [sic] had a doctor look me over. I must of been nuts. I love you darling as ever.
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you.
April 22,1943
Hello darling:
Well Here I am again. I got a letter from you to-day [sic] and in it you say you told your sister that I wouldn’t yell or whistle, there [that’s] where your [sic] wrong, Yve. I had time to go up to the club where they have the radio show. I think I would make quite a bit of noise. Darling I’m glad to hear that your grandmother is better, and another thing don’t worry about me going swimming with a lot of beautiful girls because first of all it[‘s] too cold yet and second there’s no beautiful girls down here. At least I haven't seen any and anyhow who wants to? All I ask is for the army to give
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me a furlough and I could go home and see the most beautiful girl there is. As for gills I don’t know what they are but all fish have them so you couldn’t of been hot there so don’t worry. Well today was dull. I saw the General and his staff walk by, and as for the weather is [sic] [it] was raining all day. Well it’s getting bad down here. The army won’t give me a permit to drive but I had to go out to day [sic] and drive a truck to prove to them I can drive. Gee darling I miss you to-night and it’s so quiet here you could hear a pin drop. Gee if I could only see you maybe I could stand to go another four months, and to think that I enlisted. I think I should of [sic] had a doctor look me over. I must of been nuts. I love you darling as ever.
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 22, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 2, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1220.