Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 4, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 4, 1943.
Subject
Recreation, Friends
Description
Howard describes a hot fourth of July and how he was forced to work while his friends had fun.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-07-04
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-07-04
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Original Format
Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 4, 1943
Hello darling:
I’ll be you can’t guess what I’m doing on this beautiful fourth of July. Well seeing how I’m so lucky I’m on charge of quarters (CQ). It never fails when we get a holiday. I’m on duty and is it hot down here to day [sic]. Yesterday was declared a holiday for the division and it would of [sic] been a perfect weekend to go some place swimming but no. Poor little me has to stay in and sweat his hairs out. (What little he has.) Well darling what have you been doing to-day [sic]? Have you been swimming or what? You know I[‘ve] been in the office for about five hours talking with the company officer trying
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to talk myself into a three day pass and I think I’ve just about got it but I’ll know better if I get it I[‘m] going to spend it near some lake where I can go swimming and lay in the shade and not in the sun. Darling if you come down here I’ll let you sit on my knee and do my work every Sunday. Ain’t I nice though? I do wish I could see you. I feel so lonesome that nothing seem[s] to go right lately. Well darling I got to [sic] go pretty soon and take bed check to see how many boys are not after hours. Then I got to [sic] turn in a fire alarm at four o’clock in the morning and get them all out of bed for [a] fire drill. Some fun, huh? Gee darling I love you and sure wish I couls be near you but what[‘]s the use of wishing? I’ll just have to wait but I’ll never stop loving you.
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you darling.
July 4, 1943
Hello darling:
I’ll be you can’t guess what I’m doing on this beautiful fourth of July. Well seeing how I’m so lucky I’m on charge of quarters (CQ). It never fails when we get a holiday. I’m on duty and is it hot down here to day [sic]. Yesterday was declared a holiday for the division and it would of [sic] been a perfect weekend to go some place swimming but no. Poor little me has to stay in and sweat his hairs out. (What little he has.) Well darling what have you been doing to-day [sic]? Have you been swimming or what? You know I[‘ve] been in the office for about five hours talking with the company officer trying
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to talk myself into a three day pass and I think I’ve just about got it but I’ll know better if I get it I[‘m] going to spend it near some lake where I can go swimming and lay in the shade and not in the sun. Darling if you come down here I’ll let you sit on my knee and do my work every Sunday. Ain’t I nice though? I do wish I could see you. I feel so lonesome that nothing seem[s] to go right lately. Well darling I got to [sic] go pretty soon and take bed check to see how many boys are not after hours. Then I got to [sic] turn in a fire alarm at four o’clock in the morning and get them all out of bed for [a] fire drill. Some fun, huh? Gee darling I love you and sure wish I couls be near you but what[‘]s the use of wishing? I’ll just have to wait but I’ll never stop loving you.
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you darling.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 4, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 29, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1284.