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Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 29, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 29, 1943
Sunday.
Hello Honey:
I’m writing you now just in case I won’t have time later. Tell Jil that she’s just a big baby and I mean it to. You know darling Norman never even mention Vi in his letter to me. Is…
Tags: church, high spirits
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 27, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Aug. [August] 27, 1943
Late
Hello darling:
In answer to your letter Saturday in the P.S. the answer is (No) [sic] so don’t worry or if you don’t believe wait and find out. I’m glad you like your cedar chest because if you…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 24, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Aug. [August] 24, 1943
8:30 PM
Hi darling:
Well I’m just getting over the train ride and I’m getting so darn lonely that I wish that I never came back. I guess it [is] no use of wishing because it won’t do any good. We…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 23, 1943
9:30 PM
Hello darling:
Well here I am back in the old camp and I got two letters from you and one from Norman Proulx. Well I still love you more than ever. Darling, remember that fellow that we met in town…
Tags: assimilation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 9, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 9, 1943
11:00 PM
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess you think I forgot all about you but I didn’t. You see, I had to go back to the feild [sic] to finish up some training before I leave on furlough. By the way, you…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 5, 1943
Hi darling: Well how are you to-day [sic]? You probaly think it’s funny that I’ve haven’t written to you lately but it [is] only because I’ve been through a week of (hell) last week. I had to use that word but…
Tags: combat training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 27, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 27, 1943
Hello darling:
Just a few lines to let you know I still love you. To night [sic] I got a terrible headache and I’m going to bed as soon as I finish writing this letter. Well darling by this time you are at the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 25, 1943
Hello darling:
Well it[‘]s been a long time no see but I think I’ll make it yet. I think I’m going to be able to get home in Aug. [August] if nothing happens. I got the letter in which you said something like…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 19, 1943
Hi kid:
How do you like my writing paper? I’ve been so busy in [the] army for the past week. I don’t know what [is] going to happen next. I had a chance to get to town so that accounts for the writing…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Monday
July 12, 1943
Hello darling:
Well here I am again after a good day [of] work. I just shaved and had a shower and feel like going out and raise [sic] ---- [intentional blank in place of “hell”] but it will have 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