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Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 15, 1944
Feb. 15, 1944 2:30 P.M. Hello darling: Well the weather is a little better to day [sic] but yesterday we had quite a snow storm [sic] and this morning when I got up I had to shake the snow off my blankets but its [sic] nice and sunny now althou [sic]…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling
How’s everything to-day [sic]? Gee I’m lonesome to day [sic]. I like your new writing paper but don’t you think its [sic] kind of small? Gee I wish that I was in Boston with you last weekend. Well yesterday I went up to the service desk…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 13, 1943
Hello Darling:
Its [sic] me again and its [sic] so darn cold here I need you to warm me up. We went out on [illegible] Saturday morning and won’t come back til next [S]unday. I guess its [sic] looks like they are going to try to freeze us. The…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 10, 1944
[official United States Army seal is at the top and center of the page]
Feb. 10, 1944
6:45 P.M.
Dear Yve:
I know its [sic] been a long time since I’ve written you but you got to under stand [sic] how it is. I just got back from bivouac and am…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 10, 1943
Dear Yvette
What’s cooking? What kind of a weekend did you have in Boston? Did you have a good time at the dance that you went to while you were there? I just got a letter from someone in [S]outhbridge and they said you went dancing in Boston. I’m…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 9, 1945
Dec. 9, 1945
Sunday
Dear Yvette + ?
I didn’t write last night and I’m sorry. It was kind of late and I was awfully tired. I got up today and went to church like a good boy and then waited for mail call but I had a bit disapointment [sic] when I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 9, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 9, 1943
Hello Darling:
Gee I’m happy to night [sic]. I just got the package and a letter to [sic] and I just couldn’t wait until christmas to open my christmas present so I opened it and I like it and darling I…
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 7, 1945
Dec. 7, 1945
Friday
Dearest Yve.,
Do You remember what we were doing four years ago to-day [sic]? Well, I’ll tell you. We had dinner at your house. That was the day that Pearl harbor was attacked. It doesn’t seem that long but its [sic] the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 6, 1945
Dec. 6, 1945
Thursday.
Dearest Yve.
Well nothing has changed yet but I’ve still got hopes. I got a letter from Tony Siragusa and he says he’s enjoying civillian [sic] life and he wants to know how I’m making it. I think I’ll write to him to…
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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