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Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 11, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 11, 1943
Darling:
I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother and I hope that she get[s] well again and I’ll pray every-night [sic] for her and darling I love you so very much. My mother wrote me that you stopped in the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard. April 12, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 12, 1943
Hello darling.
Here I am again. I got your letter a little while ago and I was just going to ask you where I could send a card to so your Grandmother could get it? Now I won’t have to ask. Well I[‘m] shure…
Tags: duty, loneliness, recruits
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
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 28, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 28, 1943
Hello darling:
Well another day is gone and I still love you very much. How about you? There was nothing new happening to day [sic] around here. Nothing ever does. Darling how’s your grandmother to day [sic]?…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 2, 1943
Hello darling:
Well here it is Sunday and I got a little time off. I haven’t written for the past three or four days because the mater Sgt. [Sergeant] has been sick and I had to take his place while he’s out.…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 4, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
May 4, 1943
10:00 PM.
Hello darling:
Well to-day [sic] I think I’ve worked the hardest that I ever worked since I came in the army. First the motor Sgt. [Sergeant] took sick and they sent him to the doctor and about an…
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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