Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 26, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 26, 1943.
Subject
Loneliness
Description
Howard describes how boring the routine is becoming.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-04-26.
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-04-26
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 26, 1943
Hi Kid:
What’s cooking? Your [sic] getting good. I got two letters from you to-day [sic] which made me both happy and sad at the same time. Gee I love you and I wish I could go back and continue where I left off about a year ago instead of being down here. It shure [sic] was a lot of fun to be free to do what you wanted to do when you wanted to do it. Well to-day [sic] was very dull. I went to the P.X. [Post Exchange] and bought myself a pair of shoes to wear in case I ever get a furlough. Then brought them back and saddle scooped them and polished them. (Lots of ‘ands,’ huh?) I went to the show last night and
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saw Slightly Dangerous [sic]. Lana Turner and Bob Young played in it and it was very good. You should see it. The only trouble with going to the show is that it makes me want to go back home more. Well suga we’ll have a better time time after the war is over and we’ll be able to go more places, just you and I. Maybe even dances. Ah darling what I wouldn’t give to go to a dance and have big hand or some-thing that don’t [sic] play hillbilly music all day. Easter all [I] could get on the radio was mountain music, even in the recording it seem[ed] the best they can do is play, “One Dozen Roses.” Right now the radio is playing the, “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” I heard over the radio today that the Japs [Slang for Japanese] claim the war will last one hundred years. I hope they are wrong. Darling how’s your grandmother these days? I hope she[‘s] well by
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the time I get home. Then we can go see her together. By the way did I tell you I love you more to-day [sic] and I’ll love you a little more every day till we ain’t [sic] none [sic] more? Well I got the clock out for four-thirty so I guess I have to turn in now because it’s after eleven. Who said that when you get in the army you could throw away your clock? I use this one more have [sic] than I did the one I had back home. Oh well I guess I can’t complain. I’m not over in Europe, yet anyway, and I hope the war ends so I can go home. I love you and you’ll never know how much I miss you. Love
Howard.
April 26, 1943
Hi Kid:
What’s cooking? Your [sic] getting good. I got two letters from you to-day [sic] which made me both happy and sad at the same time. Gee I love you and I wish I could go back and continue where I left off about a year ago instead of being down here. It shure [sic] was a lot of fun to be free to do what you wanted to do when you wanted to do it. Well to-day [sic] was very dull. I went to the P.X. [Post Exchange] and bought myself a pair of shoes to wear in case I ever get a furlough. Then brought them back and saddle scooped them and polished them. (Lots of ‘ands,’ huh?) I went to the show last night and
[Page 2]
saw Slightly Dangerous [sic]. Lana Turner and Bob Young played in it and it was very good. You should see it. The only trouble with going to the show is that it makes me want to go back home more. Well suga we’ll have a better time time after the war is over and we’ll be able to go more places, just you and I. Maybe even dances. Ah darling what I wouldn’t give to go to a dance and have big hand or some-thing that don’t [sic] play hillbilly music all day. Easter all [I] could get on the radio was mountain music, even in the recording it seem[ed] the best they can do is play, “One Dozen Roses.” Right now the radio is playing the, “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” I heard over the radio today that the Japs [Slang for Japanese] claim the war will last one hundred years. I hope they are wrong. Darling how’s your grandmother these days? I hope she[‘s] well by
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the time I get home. Then we can go see her together. By the way did I tell you I love you more to-day [sic] and I’ll love you a little more every day till we ain’t [sic] none [sic] more? Well I got the clock out for four-thirty so I guess I have to turn in now because it’s after eleven. Who said that when you get in the army you could throw away your clock? I use this one more have [sic] than I did the one I had back home. Oh well I guess I can’t complain. I’m not over in Europe, yet anyway, and I hope the war ends so I can go home. I love you and you’ll never know how much I miss you. Love
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 26, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1223.