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Oct. 16, 1945
Tuesday,
Dear Sweet.
Gee I love you more and more every day and I want you more than any-thing. I think this army is driving me nuts because to night [sic] I went and saw a cowboy picture and if I was sane I probably wouldn’t have…

Oct. 16, 1944
(Still on maneuvers)
Dearest darling wife,
Here I am lying down in my text writing because there isn’t enough room to sit up. Well darling we’ll be back in the barracks friday and and I’ll feel much better. I got a letter from you…

Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Oct. 16 1943
Hello Darling:
Well its [sic] about time I wrote don’t you think or do you. Well for the past three days we’ve been on night problems and didn’t get back to camp until about two o’clock in the morning and…

Oct. 15, 1945
Monday
My beautiful darling,
Its [sic] just me again and as happy as ever. I miss you more every day and darling I need you so very much. Gee darling you have a lot of trouble with me don’t you? Hunting for a place to live after I…

Oct. 15, 1944
(maneuvers)
Dearest darling wife,
Well its sunday again and I feel kind of lonesome but better days are coming. I think I’ll be coming home on the next branch that goes. It ought to leave around the twentieth of the month or a little…

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…

Oct. 14, 1945
Sunday
Dearest Wife,
Sunday seems to be the day I miss you the most. The other days go by faster and I have some-thing to do, but sunday is just laying around and thinking and mostly of you. Darling you know what’s best on getting…

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…

Oct. 13, 1945
Saturday
Dearest Wife,
This morning at nine o’clock we we’re [sic] married sixteen month and they we’re [sic] the happiest month of my life and I hope the next sixty years are the same excipt [sic] that I’ll be home all the time…

Friday Oct. 13, 1944
Dearest darling wife,
Well darling here it is friday the 13th and we’ve been married four months. Darling it seems its[sic] been a long time but it really hasn’t, I guess its[sic] because I haven’t seen you for a long time.…