Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 15, 1944

Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 15, 1944

Military Life

Howard addresses Yvette's fears about Howard not wanting to marry her.

Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977

Harvey, Gretchen (donor)

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives

1944-05-15

Haekenkamp, Daniele (digitization, transcription, metadata)

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Correspondences

English

Text

1944-05-15

Camp Campbell, KY

Correspondences

[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]

May 15, 1944

9:00 P.M.


Dearest Darling,

I love you. I love you. I love you. That’s how I feel to-night [sic]. It may sound funny to you but I just got back from seeing the chaplain to-night [sic] and he gave me his name i you can read it and we had a ice long talk. He told me to come for some instructions Wed. night so by the time you get this letter I’ll probably be in the chaplain[‘s] office


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Gee darling I love you so very much and I wish I could see you! There[‘s] one thing you said in the letter to day [sic] that I didn’t like and it was quote (I’m wondering if your going to want to bother seeing the chaplain.) You know darling I want to marry you so much as anything in the world and even more but you seem to doubt me all the time. You know darling when I was going up to see the chaplain I had the funniest feeling. [D]o you remember the time on my last furlough that we went to see the priest. [W]ell I had that same feeling, but darling every


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thing is different now. I hope darling that I’m all you expect because I wouldn’t want to disapoint [sic] you. I dont [sic] know what to say except I love you. Darling I guess I’m in a I love you mood to night [sic]. Well darling I’m going to close now and remember that I love you. Love


Howard


[The following is written as a post script]

P.S. I love you