Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 31, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 31, 1943.
Subject
Loneliness, Longing
Description
Howard describes to Yve how it seems like years since they last saw each other and how if he could, he would leave right now to see Yve.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-08-31
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
1943-08-31
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentcuky
Aug. [August] 31, 1943
10:30 PM
Hello darling:
It[‘]s getting late and I don’t know just what to write to-night [sic]. It[‘]s been eleven days since I’ve seen you and its [sic] seems like eleven years. I sure do miss you. Darling when do you think this war will end? Don’t you think about it? I had one of the craziest dreams last night about the army giving me a furlough every two months and to top it off between the furloughs they would give me a three day pass every five days. The funniest part of it is that I tried to refuse all the pass because I was so sick of civilian life.
[Page 2]
Well anyway they wouldn’t let me spend more than two days in the army at one time. Darling I haven’t had any letters from you for two days. What’s the matter? Are you as busy as I am or is it that you write and there [is] kind of slow in getting here? I got a letter from a friend of mine in England and he says he’s having a good time except he [would] rather be home in the good old U.S.A. and I don’t blame him a bit because there’s no place like home. Well darling I think I’m going to have Sunday off and if I do my buddy said that he wanted to take me to Dixon. That [is] a little town
[Page 3]
about forty miles from camp. That is he can get the gas and I think he will. There’s a pretty good lake out there to go swimming in so that will be what we’ll do. Oh, I almost forgot to send you this little article I clipped out of a news paper [sic]. It just goes to show you how a soldier is treated in the sunny Sound land [sic] every word of it is the truth. Honey that [is] all there is to say right now except that I love you so very much that I lo=ike to go home right away and I would
[Page 4]
if I could but it’s impossible. Well darling I’ll have to close now so until to morrow [sic]. I love you. Just me
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. Darling if you can’t read this come down and I’ll read it to you and then some.
Aug. [August] 31, 1943
10:30 PM
Hello darling:
It[‘]s getting late and I don’t know just what to write to-night [sic]. It[‘]s been eleven days since I’ve seen you and its [sic] seems like eleven years. I sure do miss you. Darling when do you think this war will end? Don’t you think about it? I had one of the craziest dreams last night about the army giving me a furlough every two months and to top it off between the furloughs they would give me a three day pass every five days. The funniest part of it is that I tried to refuse all the pass because I was so sick of civilian life.
[Page 2]
Well anyway they wouldn’t let me spend more than two days in the army at one time. Darling I haven’t had any letters from you for two days. What’s the matter? Are you as busy as I am or is it that you write and there [is] kind of slow in getting here? I got a letter from a friend of mine in England and he says he’s having a good time except he [would] rather be home in the good old U.S.A. and I don’t blame him a bit because there’s no place like home. Well darling I think I’m going to have Sunday off and if I do my buddy said that he wanted to take me to Dixon. That [is] a little town
[Page 3]
about forty miles from camp. That is he can get the gas and I think he will. There’s a pretty good lake out there to go swimming in so that will be what we’ll do. Oh, I almost forgot to send you this little article I clipped out of a news paper [sic]. It just goes to show you how a soldier is treated in the sunny Sound land [sic] every word of it is the truth. Honey that [is] all there is to say right now except that I love you so very much that I lo=ike to go home right away and I would
[Page 4]
if I could but it’s impossible. Well darling I’ll have to close now so until to morrow [sic]. I love you. Just me
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. Darling if you can’t read this come down and I’ll read it to you and then some.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 31, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1266.