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Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 25, 1944
Nov. 25, 1944
9:30 P.M.
My darling wife,
Gee I miss you tonight and I didn’t get any letter today either. Well darling nothing exciting has happened today. This morning I was driving for supply and at ten o’clock I and the rest of the company had…
Tags: Baby, Military life, Son
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 24, 1944
Nov. 24, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Sweet,
Darling I like the way you write and call me sweet and underline sweet. But it ok and I love you so much. Darling its [sic] kind of early to tell about the christmas [sic] vacation but don’t worry darling if…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 21, 1944
Nov. 21, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife,
Its [sic] only me again and I’m so much in love with a little girl in Southbridge that nothing else matters. I wish I was with this little girl tonight because I’m in the mood to mush up all the hair…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 20, 1944
Nov. 20, 1944
9:00 PM
Darling,
I love you very much do you know that and its [sic] so hard to be with out [sic] you. I wish this war was over so we could be together and never have to leave each other don’t you? Well you may call me a gold-licker…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling:
I love you very much and I’m all well new. [T]hat is as far as I know. Well thing[s] are funny down here. I don’t care much for the camp. [I]t [is] all new down here and there [is] not much a guy can do. I can’t get a pass to stay over…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 19, 1944
Nov. 19, 1944
Dearest darling wife + no kids
How are you today darling? I was just lying on my bunk thinking of all the good times we’ve had in the two weeks I was home. You couldnt [sic] of been a nicer wife if you tried. You did so much and I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 12, 1943
Hello [D]arling
Well here I am back to work and I fell tired to night [sic]. I got a big bunch of mail from you to-day [sic], and I love you very much. I’ll keep the date with you for next New Years and we both can get drunk. [A]in’t [sic] I awful…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 11, 1943
Hi Kid:
How is everything with you to-day [sic]. Well they are letting me out to-morrow [sic]. [D]on’t you think that [is] nice. I told them its [sic] about time. I told them I’d like to see what kind of a camp that I got to live in. I got out of…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 10, 1943
Hello dear,
Well here I am sitting up in bed to-day [sic]. Well how are you to-day [sic]? I just had a good chicken dinner to-day [sic]. Well first I [will] tell you what kind of weather we have down here. They call it the sunny south, but I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 9, 1943
Hi Honey
How is everything to-day [sic]. Well I feel much better to-day [sic] and I think I may be out of here by next weekend. They ain’t [sic] so bad here. [T]hey give you better food and everything. Darling will you go and tell my folks why I…
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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