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Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 17, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sunday
Sept. 17, 1944
10:00 A.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well I’m still OK as you’ll know when you get this letter. I went to town friday, I mean I started to go when I got called to duty. They needed some one [sic] to drive them…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept. 18, 1942
Darling:
Ya I feel a lot better now just finished trading a letter from you and I’m sorry if I had you worried. Well you want to know what[‘]s the matter with me well I got (Hay fever) and don’t laff [sic]. Well…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 19, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 19, 1944
Tuesday
Hello darling,
Gee it’s getting so I don’t know what day of the week it is. This is the first time I’ve had to write for the last two nights. I just got in from another one of those night problems…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 19, 1945
Camp Cooke, Calif
Sept. 19, 1945
My Dearest darling,
Gee I miss you so very very much and I don’t like it out here at all and darling there is no place here for a wife. I wish there was though because I want you so much. Gee darling I hope I don’t…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 2, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept. 2, 1942
My Dearest Wife
I just finished taking a shower and I’m laying on my bunk writing to you. Gee I miss you It[‘]s been --- down here lately. I got a sore arm to-night [sic] I just got finished shooting. I got a bout…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 2, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Sept. [September] 2, 1943
11:30 PM
Hello darling:
Well here I m again and I changed my mind about not liking the army. Why I think it[‘]s swell don’t you? Don’t say yes or I’ll never believe you. Well I really don’t mind…
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Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 2, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 2, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Hi Kid,
Well hows [sic] the sweet little girl to-night? [sic] Personally I’m lonely but I think I’ll still live. Ray + I just got back from the show and it was terrible. You know one of those…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 20, 1943
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Sept. 20, 1943
Yve Honey,
How are you today? Well I got your letter and darling don’t work to [sic] hard because you know what it does to you and besides I don’t want you to lose any weight. Well it decided to turn…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 20, 1944
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 19, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well here I am again and I feel much better now. Even though I didn’t get a letter from you I know you love me, and I love you so darn much. Mushy aint [sic] I? I just got back from…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 20, 1945
Sept. 20, 1945
Thursday
Dearest darling Yve.,
Gee I miss you so very very much. Every day it seems to get worse. I’m not doing anything thats [sic] why the days seem so long. Now they talk about giving furloughs & passes but look where I am. If…
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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