Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 25, 1943.

Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 25, 1943.

Health, Longing

Howard describes how he doesn't have to work and address Yve's concern of Howard falling in love with a WAAC.

Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.

Harvey, Gretchen (donor).

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.

1943-05-25.

Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)

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Correspondence

English

Text

1943-05-25

Camp Campbell, Kentucky

Correspondence


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 25, 1943
Hi darling:
I got a letter from you to-day [sic] and I’m glad you had a good time at the play. As for me I’m about OK [sic] to-day [sic]. I can walk around pretty good but I still have to keep off of it. Well the weather down here is hot and I’m getting tired of being a way [sic] from you for so long but I just can’t do any thing [sic] about it. I got a few snap shots that Mike and I took Easter Sunday and I’ll send them even if you don’t like them save them for me I got a collection of picture of most

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of the guys I’ve been out with and I just like to keep them. Well they all called me a gold-brick to-day [sic] but they’re just sore because they have to work. An officer came in a little while ago and said he wanted me to do some work and then I pointed to a little sign on my bunk which says, “Howard L. Sarty Ler. No. 61455 is excused from duty for twenty-four hours signed, Major Hanord.” So then he went a way [sic] and didn’t bother me. Gee darling I’m going to have a lot of work to catch up on when they put me back to duty and I don’t mean maybe. Well I haven’t been anywhere lately so I can’t tell you what a good time I had

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at many thing[s] like that. Now darling you said something in one of your letters about maybe I was falling for one of the W.A.A.C.’s [Women’s Auxiliary Corps.]. You better get that idea out of your head. Of all the W.A.A.C.’s we got down here not one of them interests me at all. For one thing, they're all old and the second thing they wear a uniform and last of all I couldn’t be in love with more than one person [and the person] that I love is you so don’t say things like that. Did you ever here of the man that thought he was sick and pretty soon

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he was so if you keep thinking I’m in love with a W.A.A.C. you’ll soon believe it and then you won’t love me anymore and all the while I love you so much that I wouldn’t even look at a W.A.A.C. Well darling I love you and please keep loving me and some day [sic] soon we’ll have a little home our own. I love you with all my heart.

Howard.