Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1943.

Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1943.

policy, court

Howard describes the court case he was a witness on and how it took a great many days. He felt bad for not writing to Yve for a long time.

Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.

Harvey, Gretchen (donor).

Courtesy of Concordia College Archives.

1943-07-19

Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)

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Correspondence

English

Text

1943-07-19

Camp Campbell, Kentucky

Correspondence


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 19, 1943
Hi kid:
How do you like my writing paper? I’ve been so busy in [the] army for the past week. I don’t know what [is] going to happen next. I had a chance to get to town so that accounts for the writing paper. Well darling I still love you a lot and ever more that that. Well just like that song (You’ll never know) [sic].Well we didn’t have the court martial as they planned because on the afternoon of the trial the boy that was being tried was sitting on the bunk with a rifle in his hands and of course it

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was empty. Well he stole a shell some place and he shot him self [sic] through the foot thinking that it would get him out of the trial but it only made it worse because after he gets out of the he’ll be tried for carrying a loaded gun in to [sic] the barracks and he was crazy for shooting himself in the first place because he crippled his foot for life. Oh we have lots of excitement around her. Well honey about my teeth I’m still going to the dentist but it won’t be for long now. I think I’ll have to be satisfied until I get out of the army and in civilian life again and darling I think maybe I get a furlough in Aug. [August] instead of Sept. [September] because I’ve got to [sic] go out to the assault course and that place is what

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all the soldiers call ---- [intentional blank in place of a curse word]. It’s a little [illegible deletion] place the gal fixed up like a town and you go through it under actual battle conditions. They got land mines planted that they set off all around you and fire machine guns over your head and you got to carry your gun and fire at all moving targets that come up. I got a letter from you that was dated twelve days ago. It went all the way to Camp Chaffee, Ark. [Arkansas] then back to Campbell before I could read it. When are you coming down to see me, huh? Or ain’t [sic] you? I love you so much that it hurts when I think I’ll have such a lot wait. Well honey

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I guess that [is] about all I have time for right now but you will hear from me soon and if I get a furlough while your [sic] on vacation I [will] let you know. Well good night [sic] honey and lots of love from your old husband.

Howard.