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Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 8, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 8, 1943
Hell darling:
Well here I am again I and I still love you more than ever. It’s a little cooler here to day [sic] and it makes you feel like doing something. I was riding on the bus [hours] [when] I saw three…
Tags: loneliness, sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 8, 1945
Laufen
Germany
June 8, 1945
Dear Yvette,
Hi darling its [sic] only me and I feel swell. The only thing is that you aren’t here with me to make everything perfect. I just got finish [sic] getting ready for the big inspection that we’ll have to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 9, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 9, 1943
Hi Yve:
Just got another letter from you to-day [sic] and am feeling on top of the world. Gee it must be swell to be able to go swimming when you want to. I’ll have to wait until I get home before I get in the…
Tags: Military life, Routine
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945
March 1, 1945
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife + no kids,
Well darling I feel good to-day [loss] cause I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I liked that one the best. I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945 [EXAMPLE]
March 1, 1945
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife & no kids,
Well darling I feel good today because I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I like that one the best. I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 10, 1943
Hi Darling
How is everything back home? I got another letter from you today. Gee I wish I was there with you eating apple pie and ice cream. I wouldn’t be able to give up eating between meals because if I did that I would starve. You think your…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1943
Dear Yve
How is every little thing with you tonight? I haven’t written to you for the last two days because I was working to [sic] a hours out on the range, but today I got off a little easy instead of doing a lot of work on the range I had to take…
Tags: duty, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1945
March, 13, 1945
Tuesday
Dear Yvette,
You must of thought I got lost wounded or something because I didn’t write, but it wasn’t that bad. I guess you’d classify it as plain lazy-ness [sic]. Well here it is the thirteenth and you know what that…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling
Well here I am again, just a little boy who can’t forget that he’s got the most beautiful girl in the world back in [S]outhbridge waiting for him till the war is ended. Darling I sure love you, why today I went to town and I missed you…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1945
March 14, 1945
Wed-night,
Dearest darling wife + no kids
Well here it is another day and I got three letters from you to day [sic] dated the 14th, 15th, and 16th. I got that snap shot that Pauline took of you and I think its [sic] good so I’ll…
Tags: Homesickness
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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