Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 15, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 15, 1944
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard received a package from Yvette in the mail. Catches her up on military life.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-10-15
Contributor
Wibel, Maret (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1944-10-15
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Correspondences
Text
Oct. 15, 1944
(maneuvers)
Dearest darling wife,
Well its sunday again and I feel kind of lonesome but better days are coming. I think I’ll be coming home on the next branch that goes. It ought to leave around the twentieth of the month or a little later, but I can wait. Darling I got the big package from you and every thing [sic] in it although I think you’ll spoil me by giving
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me everything I ask for. By the way where did you get the peanuts with the shells on? I haven’t seen any of those in a long time. Well darling everybody is writing letters [illegible word] to their wives or girlfriends and its very quiet around here. I woke up this morning when a guy from “a” company played first call and then he started singing after ____ and night after that he played “There’s no place like home” what a guy. Well darling I’ll be glad
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when this war is over. Another thing darlings I’ll have to put a few rocks and sticks into the bed when I get home so I’ll be able to sleep. You know when you get used to sleeping on the ground it[s] hard to get used to a bed. Well darling I got to leave now. I love you and thanks again for the package. I love you. As ever
Howard
[The following is included as a post script]
Ps. The furlough may not come until the 25th of the month. I love you.
(maneuvers)
Dearest darling wife,
Well its sunday again and I feel kind of lonesome but better days are coming. I think I’ll be coming home on the next branch that goes. It ought to leave around the twentieth of the month or a little later, but I can wait. Darling I got the big package from you and every thing [sic] in it although I think you’ll spoil me by giving
[Page 2]
me everything I ask for. By the way where did you get the peanuts with the shells on? I haven’t seen any of those in a long time. Well darling everybody is writing letters [illegible word] to their wives or girlfriends and its very quiet around here. I woke up this morning when a guy from “a” company played first call and then he started singing after ____ and night after that he played “There’s no place like home” what a guy. Well darling I’ll be glad
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when this war is over. Another thing darlings I’ll have to put a few rocks and sticks into the bed when I get home so I’ll be able to sleep. You know when you get used to sleeping on the ground it[s] hard to get used to a bed. Well darling I got to leave now. I love you and thanks again for the package. I love you. As ever
Howard
[The following is included as a post script]
Ps. The furlough may not come until the 25th of the month. I love you.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 15, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 15, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/687.