Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 21, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 21, 1943.
Subject
Recreation, Loneliness
Description
Howard describes a bivouac trip he took with fellow soldiers and how afterwards has spent most of his time in the barracks.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-05-21.
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
1943-05-21.
Coverage
Camp Campbell, 1943.
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 21, 1943
8:00 PM.
Hello darling:
In case your [sic] wondering why I didn’t write last night I’ll tell you. Last night I went on a bivouac and in case you don’t what that is it[‘]s one of these over night [sic] hikes, you know, where you walk ten or fifteen miles and then make camp for the night and in the morning you pack up and come back. Well everything went pretty good. We only killed three snakes. Darling nothing’s the matter with me that a furlough won’t cure. That’s right but to get a
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furlough is a horse of a different color. I went to the old man to-day [sic] to see if I could get back in the line and he said, “no.” He said there was too much work to be done where your [sic] at. Well darling your [sic] recital sound[ed] like it it[‘]s going to be good. I hope I can see it. Darling I miss you so. I wish I was with you. I haven’t been out of the barracks for three week[s] except to go to the movies accross [sic] the street and if I ever get a home I won’t know how to act with people or in front of them. Don’t mind the writing I got the paper on my knee and it[‘]s almost dark out and we haven’t any lights down here to night [sic] (the storm put them out.) Darling I hope you’ll still love me when I get out as much as I love you. Honest darling, I love you so much. As ever
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
[Written at top of first page.] P.S. I love you.
May 21, 1943
8:00 PM.
Hello darling:
In case your [sic] wondering why I didn’t write last night I’ll tell you. Last night I went on a bivouac and in case you don’t what that is it[‘]s one of these over night [sic] hikes, you know, where you walk ten or fifteen miles and then make camp for the night and in the morning you pack up and come back. Well everything went pretty good. We only killed three snakes. Darling nothing’s the matter with me that a furlough won’t cure. That’s right but to get a
[Page 2]
furlough is a horse of a different color. I went to the old man to-day [sic] to see if I could get back in the line and he said, “no.” He said there was too much work to be done where your [sic] at. Well darling your [sic] recital sound[ed] like it it[‘]s going to be good. I hope I can see it. Darling I miss you so. I wish I was with you. I haven’t been out of the barracks for three week[s] except to go to the movies accross [sic] the street and if I ever get a home I won’t know how to act with people or in front of them. Don’t mind the writing I got the paper on my knee and it[‘]s almost dark out and we haven’t any lights down here to night [sic] (the storm put them out.) Darling I hope you’ll still love me when I get out as much as I love you. Honest darling, I love you so much. As ever
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
[Written at top of first page.] P.S. I love you.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 21, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1233.