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Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 30, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 30, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Its [sic] only me again and just as lonely as ever. I just got through with one of those may [sic] reading classes and I went back to the barracks to write a letter but just as I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 15, 1942
Hi Yve
How have they been treating you back home[?] I got a couple of boys around me bothering me. They keep telling me that you are going out and everything while I’m in the army but I keep telling them that I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 29, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 29, 1944
9:45 P.M.
Hi Yve.,
What are you doing to-night? Well I’m just about ready to go to bed, but now I’m up in my squad leaders room and writing. You see the light went out and the sgt. being a good egg said I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 28, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 28, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Dear Yve.,
Its just me again and I’m on duty to-night. [sic] It seems that it’s my turn to drive guard to-night [sic] so here I am with a little peep (the same one you rode in when you came out to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 14, 1942
Darling Yve
This is me again and I don’t feel so hot. I just came back from the dentist and I had five teeth pulled. I’m gold bricking to-day [sic] that’s the term we use down here when a guy like me don’t feel…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 27, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 27, 1944
Sunday
4 P.M.
Dearest Yvette,
Well darling I didn’t write last night because when I got in it was too late. We went out last night to dryrun a problem and it was morning when we got back. You see it was a…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 25, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 25, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
Its [sic] just me again and I’m pretty dirty in fact I haven’t had a shower yet, but as soon as I write this letter. Well darling I’m still waiting to hear from you darling and I’m…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 13, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct. 13, 1942
Hi Darling
How’s every little thing and all the big ones to[o][?] I sent the cookey [sic] box back the other day did you get it yet? I hope Lil is happy but it don’t seem that they will get along too good…
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Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 24, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 24, 1944
7:30 P.M.
My darling wife,
Well here I am again and darling I still love you. They are playing Star dust on the radio right now and it make [sic] me more lonely. Well I made the infiltration course last…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 23, 1944
6:45 P.M.
My darling Wife ,
Well I suppose you [are] back home now giving lessons every day now. Please darling don’t work too hard? I got to go out to-night [sic] around seven-ten so I haven’t much time…
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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