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Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 3, 1943 (1)
Hello [D]arling:
Well here it is the next morning and its seem[s] that we didn’t have t go out with the company because it was just a problem for the rifle men in the company so here I am lying in my tent all alone. Last night after I finished…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 31, 1943
Hi [D]arling
How’s everything with you? Well I’m still a clerk and I haven’t had a rating yet but don’t be surprised if I make one this week. I had a nice long talk with the captain and he has sent my name in for Corporal. Well so much for that. I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 28, 1943
Hello [D]arling:
How are you to-day [sic]? I’m not mad at you what makes you think I am? I sent my watch and I’ll send the twenty dollars when I get a chance. Well [D]arling I wish I could go home but the way thing[s] are down here I guess I’ll have…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 25, 1943
Dear Yvette
I haven’t used the word [D]ear for a long time have I [D]arling? I love you and I hope you haven’t changed your mind about me. Gee it [is] cold down here all of a sudden. [Y]esterday it sure was hot and to-day [sic] it started to snow.…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 24, 1943 (2)
Hello [D]arling
How are you to-day [sic]? I’m sorry that I haven’t written more often but I haven’t been feeling good at all since I came out of the hospital. I sent my watch back so you out [ought] to get it soon. I’m not mad anymore about you…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 24, 1943 (1)
Hi [D]arling
I love you [D]arling and I hope you still do. I feel a lot better to now [sic] that I had a good nap. In the letter to-day [sic] you seem discourage[d] whith [sic] life. I don’t blame you much though. I haven’t been writing and I’ll…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 22, 1943
Hi Honey
I got word that went to the ball before I got your letter and I was mad when I heard that you went without telling me but I can’t blame you for going. I wish I could of [sic] gone but that’s was out of the question. Darling I still love…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 21, 1943
Dear Yve,
Well [D]arling here I am again, kind of tired but still going. I’m getting ready for a big inspection tomorrow and still quite a lot of work to do. I [am] writing you in my ten minute break so it won’t be very long. Last night I was out…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 19, 1943
Dear Yve, I got the box of cookies and they weren’t hard or broken, but very good. I know because I’m eating them now. Well [D]arling I didn’t write [M]onday because we were out all night and last night we were on a twenty-five mile hike and I’m…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 17, 1943
Hello [D]arling
I just got a couple of letters from you to-day [sic] and it sure made me feel good. Well [H]oney I went to town last night to see what it was like. Well the town is about one block square and it was the biggest town between the…
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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