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Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 4, 1944
[Tennesee, somewhere near Lebanon]
Oct. 4, 1944
Wednesday
Hello darling,
I’m sorry to hear that your [sic] so blue because I feel pretty good. I got time off yesterday and got to a little town called Lebanon, Tenn. and tried to call you up but I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 27, 1944
Feb. 27, 1944
Camp Campbell Ky [Kentucky]
Yvette darling,
I wish you knew how much I miss you. I love you so much that I don’t think I can live much longer with out [sic] you. Darling you know my boss has a little daughter that is named Judy and…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 14, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 14, 1943
Hello darling:
I love you so much and I wish I could see you. I didn’t write to you last night because I had to move all my stuff (such as clothes and bed) down to the motor pack up. You see, I’m back at my…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 16, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 16, 1943
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess we’re both in the same boat. I got a cold to[o] and I’ve been taking pills to[o]. It isn’t warm down here anymore. Yesterday we had a snow storm. I think I caught my cold…
Tags: Military life, sickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 19, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 19, 1943
Hello darling:
How’s everything back home? As for me I think I’m going nuts. I got up this morning at four and had chow at four-thirty then I started my work for the day. That was alright until about…
Tags: WAACs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 20, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 20, 1943
Hi darling:
Are you lonesome? Gee I wish I could drop in and see you like old times. Last night after I wrote you a letter I started to think of all the good times I’ve had with you. It started back to the…
Tags: loneliness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 22, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 22,1943
Hello darling:
Well Here I am again. I got a letter from you to-day [sic] and in it you say you told your sister that I wouldn’t yell or whistle, there [that’s] where your [sic] wrong, Yve. I had time to go up…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, April 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 23. 1943
Darling:
Thanks for the box of candy I got to-day [sic]. It’s been quite a while since I had any good candy. You see, down here they got us rationed to[o]. All we can eat is two bars of candy a day at the…
Tags: sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 25, 1943
Darling:
Just received your letter and I don’t blame you for feeling the way you do about me not coming home. I feel that way to[o]. After waiting over four months and expecting a furlough and then don’t get…
Tags: furloughs, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 26, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 26, 1943
Hi Kid:
What’s cooking? Your [sic] getting good. I got two letters from you to-day [sic] which made me both happy and sad at the same time. Gee I love you and I wish I could go back and continue where I left…
Tags: loneliness, sleep depravation
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910