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Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 4, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 4, 1943
Hi darling.
Well I just got the letter that your wrote March 30th and I still love you. Gee I wish I could go home at the same time that Norman has his furlough but one never knows. The army says training…
Tags: furloughs, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 5, 1943
Hello darling.
Well I got three letters to day [sic] and I’m sorry if I said anything in them (I mean my letter or letters to you) to hurt your feeling[s]. That would be the last thing I would ever want to do.…
Tags: furlough, sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 8, 1943.
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
April 8, 1943
Hello darling.
How[‘]s everything? I got the package that you sent and everything in it was ok [sic]. I haven’t written for the past three or four days because I have been pretty busy. It’s got so down here…
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 Sarty, March 18, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 18, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got the letter that you wrote the 15[th] of this month and I still love you. Well it[‘]s raining like the Devil to-day [sic] and I got wet twice. Well I’m quarantine[d] with the measles…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 26, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 26, 1943
Hi Kid.
How are you? I got another letter from you to-day [sic] and it made me feel like taking off over the hill and go[ing] home. Well darling I went down to the motor park [and] did a little work and came…
Tags: duty, sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 30, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 30, 1943
Hi darling:
How’s everything? It’s a little on the hot side down here. I think spring is realy [sic] here to stay. One reason I think spring is here is to day [sic] [is] I was and [sic] in the nice warm…
Tags: chain of command, duty
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 1, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 1, 1943
Hi Yve:
Well here it is: the April fool’s day and no luck. I went to the first Sgt. [Sergeant] to day [sic] and asked for a furlough and he blew up, so when he finished I said April fool, then he was mad.…
Tags: furloughs
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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