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Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 30, 1944
Nov. 30, 1944
Dear Yve (you little mushy mush)
Well when you get this letter you’ll know I skipped a day writing to you which was my fault because last night I had to go out on a night combat course and didn’t get back until after twelve last night…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 1, 1944
Dec. 1, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dearest darling and wife + no kids,
Well here I am again just so happy as every but I got a few things on my mind. First what do you want for christmas [sic] and second is what to get my folks for christmas [sic] that has me…
Tags: Christmas
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 3, 1944
Dec. 3, 1944
Evening
Dearest darling wife,
I guess I’m a bad boy for not writing you last night but I was kept pretty busy and it got kind of late. I just got a letter from you and you seem mad at me. I know darling that your [sic] only coming…
Tags: Holidays
Letter to Howard from Yvette, December 4, 1944
Dec. 4, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Hello Darling,
How are you to-night? I feel so lonely that I’m about ready to send a telegram for you to come down but I’ll wait until christmas [sic]. Well darling, I hope Jim gets home alright but he had to learn his…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 5, 1944
Dec. 5, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Yvette dearest,
Gee I miss you so much that it hurts. I wish I could get out of this darn army. I know I’ve been awful lucky to stay on this side so long but I’m getting awful tired of it. Darling no letter to day [sic] and…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 8, 1944
Dec. 8, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dearest darling wife and no kid,
Did you think I forgot all about you? Well I didn’t in fact I just got back from Crane, Indiana. It was a pretty good trip but tiresome. I’ll start in the beginning. We left camp wednesday…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 10, 1944
Dec. 10, 1944
6:00 P.M.
Dearest darling wife,
Well darling its [sic] the same old thing you get up in the morning lay around all day and go back to bed again. I didn’t write last night because I went to town to find you something for christmas…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 11, 1944
Dec. 11, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well darling it snowed all day to day [sic] and all we got to show for it is just enough to cover the ground. Its [sic] starting to freeze now and its [sic] quite windy now too. I’m just about frozen with out…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 12, 1944
Dec. 12, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
well its [sic] been quite a day with all this and thats [sic] and I’m just about ready to go to bed. First off this morning I got up, then I went to eat and then to work as usual. Everything went along smooth…
Tags: Military
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 13, 1944
Dec. 13, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Darling Yve,
Well here it is the 13th which means we’ve been married six months to-day and it don’t [sic] seem that long at all. I guess its [sic] because we haven’t been together too much of the time. I got a nice letter…
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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