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Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 8, 1942
Yve Darling
I just got your letter telling me how lonely you are, well I feel the same way about you. I love you so much it hurts. At night just before I go to bed I got a lot of time to think and I think of all…
Tags: Love, Military life, Truck
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 12, 1942
Darling Yve,
I wish I were with you right now. You don’t know how much I miss you. I got the box of cookies you sent me to-day [sic] and they were really good. They came all in one piece too. You know I got Sat.…
Tags: Bus, Military life, Roland
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 14, 1942
My darling little Yve
I haven’t had a letter from you for three days and I wonder if your mad. Sunday night I went to the show and after the show I came by the officers club and they were having a dance. It was…
Tags: Crying, Half-Track, Love, Officers club, song, Star-Dust
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 15, 1942
Darling Yve
I haven’t much time to write because the[y] just told us to get our packs rolled for a few days out in the country. I know we got to go 15 miles before noon but that ain’t so bad. How are you? [D]o you…
Tags: Hike, Military training, Peep
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 9, 1945
Nov 9, 1945
Friday
Dearest Yve,
Well here’s your husband to night [sic] and he feel pretty good for a friday. You know friday is the day that I don’t get any letters but I love you just the same as I always did. Darling you couldn’t know what…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 30, 1944
[Written on United States Army Stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
June 30, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Hi Darling,
It’s me again and gee I miss you. Well same old things happened to-day, [sic] and oh yes Ted went on a three day pass. I got a letter from…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 10, 1945
Nov. 10, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
I got the birthday card from you and the check. Darling, what am I going to do with fifty dollars? I also got the sad letter with it and I know just how you must feel. I went to see the Personel [sic] affairs officer…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 11, 1945
Nov. 11, 1945
Sunday
Dearest mummy,
I didn’t stop the allotment but maybe they did because when I get out they’ll have to figure out all the pay to date and maybe that’s why anyway. I find out about it Tuesday when I go to personel [sic] and let…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 12, 1945
Nov. 12, 1945
Monday
Dearest Yve.,
Well here I am to day [sic] and lonely as ever. I didn’t get any mail to day [sic] because the post office closed and no mail to-day [sic]. I’ll get some to morrow [sic] to cheer me up a little. There’s not…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 13, 1945
Nov. 13, 1945
Tuesday
Dearest darling Yve.,
Just think 17 months ago to day [sic] on a tuesday [sic] we got married and I’ve really been happy ever since. I really love you so much my darling that nothing else matters. I’m so glad that we got…
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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