Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1943.
Subject
Longing
Description
Howard returns back to Kentucky and is still missing the time he spent with Yve on the furlough.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-08-23
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-08-23
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 23, 1943
9:30 PM
Hello darling:
Well here I am back in the old camp and I got two letters from you and one from Norman Proulx. Well I still love you more than ever. Darling, remember that fellow that we met in town from Camp Campbell? Well his name is Martel from Fisk Hill and I came back all the way with him and to think I used to go to school with his brother’s [sic]. Well we paddled into camp about 11:30 Sunday night and I was so dirty that I could not even comb my hair so Monday I went to the barber
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shop and had it cut. You know darling that I’m so sorry that I didn’t asked [sic] you to come down to the bus with me. It really made me feel so darn lonely to see all the others have somebody see them off and then in Worcester I was the only [illegible deletion] soldier that was alone. Well I got so far as New York and was so home sick [sic] that I felt like coming back home to you and I would stay if I had time but as it was I just made it with about a half hour to spare. Darling why didn’t we get married while we were to gether [sic]? Gee I miss you so much that oh I don’t know how I feel. If I was home I [have] to tell you but in a letter and it[‘]s going to be short tonight so until to morrow [sic] I love you and you know I mean it and wait for me, huh? I love you.
Howard.
August 23, 1943
9:30 PM
Hello darling:
Well here I am back in the old camp and I got two letters from you and one from Norman Proulx. Well I still love you more than ever. Darling, remember that fellow that we met in town from Camp Campbell? Well his name is Martel from Fisk Hill and I came back all the way with him and to think I used to go to school with his brother’s [sic]. Well we paddled into camp about 11:30 Sunday night and I was so dirty that I could not even comb my hair so Monday I went to the barber
[Page 2]
shop and had it cut. You know darling that I’m so sorry that I didn’t asked [sic] you to come down to the bus with me. It really made me feel so darn lonely to see all the others have somebody see them off and then in Worcester I was the only [illegible deletion] soldier that was alone. Well I got so far as New York and was so home sick [sic] that I felt like coming back home to you and I would stay if I had time but as it was I just made it with about a half hour to spare. Darling why didn’t we get married while we were to gether [sic]? Gee I miss you so much that oh I don’t know how I feel. If I was home I [have] to tell you but in a letter and it[‘]s going to be short tonight so until to morrow [sic] I love you and you know I mean it and wait for me, huh? I love you.
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 3, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1261.