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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 20, 1945
Germany
April 20, 1945
Hello darling,
Well it [sic] me again and still feeling swell. I got that first package you sent and everything was swell. I’m going to start reading those [illegible deletion] Liberty’s after I finish this letter. There’s…
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, April 22, 1945
Sunday
April 22, 1945
Dearest darling Yve.,
I haven’t much time so will only drop a few lines. The mail situation is pretty bad around here but thats [sic] to be expected so if you don’t hear from me for a few days don’t worry because I’ll be OK.…
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 27, 1945
Friday
April 27, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
I guess I’ve been pretty slow about writing but lately I haven’t had time. Its [sic] a beautiful day today and I have nothing to do for about five hours so I’m trying to catch up on a little writing. A…
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, 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
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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