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Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 7, 1943
Dear Yvette
How is everything with you to-day [sic]? I am now in the guard house. I just came off past and nothing has happened so far, but I’ll have to go back in about a half hour. I still love you and I wish I could see you. I had a dream about…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 8, 1943
Dear Yve:
I just got the box of cookies that you sent and there [sic] good and I got two letters from you to-day [sic] to [sic]. Well I haven’t done much to-day [sic] but at seven o’clock to night [sic]. They lined us all up and and we had to have…
Tags: Homesickness, Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 10, 1943
Hi Darling
How is everything back home? I got another letter from you today. Gee I wish I was there with you eating apple pie and ice cream. I wouldn’t be able to give up eating between meals because if I did that I would starve. You think your…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1943
Dear Yve
How is every little thing with you tonight? I haven’t written to you for the last two days because I was working to [sic] a hours out on the range, but today I got off a little easy instead of doing a lot of work on the range I had to take…
Tags: duty, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling
Well here I am again, just a little boy who can’t forget that he’s got the most beautiful girl in the world back in [S]outhbridge waiting for him till the war is ended. Darling I sure love you, why today I went to town and I missed you…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 29, 1943
[at the top and center of the page the Camp Campbell logo is printed with CAMP CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY printed under the logo]
Sept. 29, 1943
11:30 PM
Hello darling,
Well here I am back from the fight and am sitting in the shower room to write so if…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 23, 1943
Darling:
Well here I am. All alone in the commanding officer’s office working out my change of quarters, (CQ), in army language. Well to-morrow [sic] the company has off that means no duties but I’ll have to…
Tags: loneliness, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 25, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 25, 1943
Dear Yvette;
I just got another letter from you to-day [sic] and yes darling I can read that french that you wrote and I love you to [sic]. Darling I don’t think I’ll send you any money this pay day because…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 28, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 28, 1943
Hi Yve:
I just got the letter you wrote and in it you don’t seem to want me to come home right away, but if I get a furlough I have to come or wait for an other [sic] four or five months to get one. Darling…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 29, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 29, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Darling it was sweet of you to send me that picture of yourself. I sure miss you so much that now with three pictures of the most wonderful gal in the world [it] helps met overcome my lonely…
Tags: recreation, theatre
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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