Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 25, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 25, 1943.
Subject
weather, exercise
Description
Howard describes the 115 degree heat down in Kentucky while mentioning how much he misses Yve.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-06-25
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
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Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-06-25
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 25, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got back from double timing for about three miles and am kind of out of wind and I’m telling you it was hot out there. There were eight of us on the run and only four of us finished. You see the General says we got to [sic] have training. Even the ones in the office so we do. It really is hot to day [sic]. Darling it[‘]s about 115 degrees in the sun where we was doing [sic] the cross country run and I was about as hot as a firecracker on the 4th of July. We had quite a storm down here last night though and the lights were out for about four hours, and I got a little wet. You ought to see how nice it rains down here. You can’t see the building across the street. A new guy came into the company and he came from Boston. He[‘s] quite
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a guy too but a good guy to have fun with. His name is Jon Hefferman. Gee darling it[‘]s awful lonesome down here without you and I wish I could see you, but I guess there’s not much chance of that. Well darling I think I’ll try to get a day off over the fourth. I don’t know yet [illegible deletion] if I can yet or not but I’m going to try. You probably wonder why I haven’t been sending any more money home but it[‘s] because of the summer uniforms. They go so dirty and I had to buy some and if I go to eat with dirty clothes I get *** and that means CQ [charge of quarters] for the weekend and I can’t see that. Darling I love you so much that I dream about you every night and think of you all day. I don’t know what it is but every time I turn around it seems I can’t think of anything else. Well darling I got to [sic] close now so until tomorrow I love you. Love
Howard.
June 25, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got back from double timing for about three miles and am kind of out of wind and I’m telling you it was hot out there. There were eight of us on the run and only four of us finished. You see the General says we got to [sic] have training. Even the ones in the office so we do. It really is hot to day [sic]. Darling it[‘]s about 115 degrees in the sun where we was doing [sic] the cross country run and I was about as hot as a firecracker on the 4th of July. We had quite a storm down here last night though and the lights were out for about four hours, and I got a little wet. You ought to see how nice it rains down here. You can’t see the building across the street. A new guy came into the company and he came from Boston. He[‘s] quite
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a guy too but a good guy to have fun with. His name is Jon Hefferman. Gee darling it[‘]s awful lonesome down here without you and I wish I could see you, but I guess there’s not much chance of that. Well darling I think I’ll try to get a day off over the fourth. I don’t know yet [illegible deletion] if I can yet or not but I’m going to try. You probably wonder why I haven’t been sending any more money home but it[‘s] because of the summer uniforms. They go so dirty and I had to buy some and if I go to eat with dirty clothes I get *** and that means CQ [charge of quarters] for the weekend and I can’t see that. Darling I love you so much that I dream about you every night and think of you all day. I don’t know what it is but every time I turn around it seems I can’t think of anything else. Well darling I got to [sic] close now so until tomorrow I love you. Love
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 25, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1248.