Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 16, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 16, 1943.
Subject
Recreation, Duty
Description
Howard describes how he has been very busy and unable to write. In the meantime, one of his fellow soldiers got promoted and he say a movie.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-05-16.
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 11, 1943
11:30 PM.
Hello darling,
Gee I’m lonesome to-night [sic]. I just got back from the doctor and I got to report back to him in the morning. He gave me a quick check over and didn’t seem satisfied so I guess I’ll have to go. Nothing serious though. Well darling will you marry me before the war is over or do I still have to wait? I sure wish I could see you again. It seem[s] like years that since the last time I was with you and gee I miss you so much. Darling what makes a guy fall in love? Will you tell me? I’m so much in love with you that I go around here
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like a man with out [sic] a country. Last night Mike came in late to ask me what they were supposed to do, and he said I was talking in my sleep about you. I hope that it was what I was dreaming. He couldn’t tell me what I said, though. Oh well I guess I must be in love to even talk about you in my sleep. We even have arguments about who is the prettiest and I all ways [sic] win. When are you coming down to visit me or do you want me to go up to see you first? I went to the show Sunday and saw (This Land is Mine) [sic]. Very good acting but kind of sad. Oh well I guess I better go to bed now or I’ll never get any sleep. They say you can live on love but I say you can’t when your [sic] this far away from it. I told Mike that if I was home I could live nicely on love. He said, “Marry the girl.” I told him I would. I love you more than you’ll ever know. As ever
Howard.
May 11, 1943
11:30 PM.
Hello darling,
Gee I’m lonesome to-night [sic]. I just got back from the doctor and I got to report back to him in the morning. He gave me a quick check over and didn’t seem satisfied so I guess I’ll have to go. Nothing serious though. Well darling will you marry me before the war is over or do I still have to wait? I sure wish I could see you again. It seem[s] like years that since the last time I was with you and gee I miss you so much. Darling what makes a guy fall in love? Will you tell me? I’m so much in love with you that I go around here
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like a man with out [sic] a country. Last night Mike came in late to ask me what they were supposed to do, and he said I was talking in my sleep about you. I hope that it was what I was dreaming. He couldn’t tell me what I said, though. Oh well I guess I must be in love to even talk about you in my sleep. We even have arguments about who is the prettiest and I all ways [sic] win. When are you coming down to visit me or do you want me to go up to see you first? I went to the show Sunday and saw (This Land is Mine) [sic]. Very good acting but kind of sad. Oh well I guess I better go to bed now or I’ll never get any sleep. They say you can live on love but I say you can’t when your [sic] this far away from it. I told Mike that if I was home I could live nicely on love. He said, “Marry the girl.” I told him I would. I love you more than you’ll ever know. As ever
Howard.
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-05-16.
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky.
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 16,1943
Hello darling:
I feel like a heel for not writing you sooner but I had to do my other work first. You know, keep the captain happy and all is well. I got the box of candy yesterday and thanks a lot, but you shouldn’t send all the candy down here. Darling I was thinking of getting you a cedar chest but I didn’t just know what you wanted so I‘m glad you told me. Well the other night we had a thunder storm and all the lights went out and didn’t come back on until two-thirty in the morning. I couldn’t do any work or even write [a] letter so I went
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to the show, the picture show (My Friend Flicka) [sic] and I [illegible deletion] liked it. Of course there was none of that mushy stuff and it wasn’t a cowboy and it wasn’t a jitterbug contest. Well honey I haven’t given up hope of coming home but it don’t [sic] look so good at the present time. One of the recruits got shot through the leg yesterday and went to the hospital. That[‘s] about all the excitement we’ve had down here for a long time except the other morning I was laying on the bunk in my room when somebody came in the office and it seemed to[o] early for an officer to be here so I yelled, “Hey, Joe what do you want?” and then he opened the door to my room and I saw he had a couple of silver bars on his helmet. Darling I love you and miss you so much that I wish this war was over so we could get married. I love you
Howard.
May 16,1943
Hello darling:
I feel like a heel for not writing you sooner but I had to do my other work first. You know, keep the captain happy and all is well. I got the box of candy yesterday and thanks a lot, but you shouldn’t send all the candy down here. Darling I was thinking of getting you a cedar chest but I didn’t just know what you wanted so I‘m glad you told me. Well the other night we had a thunder storm and all the lights went out and didn’t come back on until two-thirty in the morning. I couldn’t do any work or even write [a] letter so I went
[Page 2]
to the show, the picture show (My Friend Flicka) [sic] and I [illegible deletion] liked it. Of course there was none of that mushy stuff and it wasn’t a cowboy and it wasn’t a jitterbug contest. Well honey I haven’t given up hope of coming home but it don’t [sic] look so good at the present time. One of the recruits got shot through the leg yesterday and went to the hospital. That[‘s] about all the excitement we’ve had down here for a long time except the other morning I was laying on the bunk in my room when somebody came in the office and it seemed to[o] early for an officer to be here so I yelled, “Hey, Joe what do you want?” and then he opened the door to my room and I saw he had a couple of silver bars on his helmet. Darling I love you and miss you so much that I wish this war was over so we could get married. I love you
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 16, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1231.