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Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 25, 1943
Darling:
Just received your letter and I don’t blame you for feeling the way you do about me not coming home. I feel that way to[o]. After waiting over four months and expecting a furlough and then don’t get…
Tags: furloughs, Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, April 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 23. 1943
Darling:
Thanks for the box of candy I got to-day [sic]. It’s been quite a while since I had any good candy. You see, down here they got us rationed to[o]. All we can eat is two bars of candy a day at the…
Tags: sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 22, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 22,1943
Hello darling:
Well Here I am again. I got a letter from you to-day [sic] and in it you say you told your sister that I wouldn’t yell or whistle, there [that’s] where your [sic] wrong, Yve. I had time to go up…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 20, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 20, 1943
Hi darling:
Are you lonesome? Gee I wish I could drop in and see you like old times. Last night after I wrote you a letter I started to think of all the good times I’ve had with you. It started back to the…
Tags: loneliness
Letter to Yvette from Howard. April 12, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 12, 1943
Hello darling.
Here I am again. I got your letter a little while ago and I was just going to ask you where I could send a card to so your Grandmother could get it? Now I won’t have to ask. Well I[‘m] shure…
Tags: duty, loneliness, recruits
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 11, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 11, 1943
Darling:
I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother and I hope that she get[s] well again and I’ll pray every-night [sic] for her and darling I love you so very much. My mother wrote me that you stopped in the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 1, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 1, 1943
Hi Yve:
Well here it is: the April fool’s day and no luck. I went to the first Sgt. [Sergeant] to day [sic] and asked for a furlough and he blew up, so when he finished I said April fool, then he was mad.…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 30, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 30, 1943
Hi darling:
How’s everything? It’s a little on the hot side down here. I think spring is realy [sic] here to stay. One reason I think spring is here is to day [sic] [is] I was and [sic] in the nice warm…
Tags: chain of command, duty
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 26, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 26, 1943
Hi Kid.
How are you? I got another letter from you to-day [sic] and it made me feel like taking off over the hill and go[ing] home. Well darling I went down to the motor park [and] did a little work and came…
Tags: duty, sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, March 18, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 18, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got the letter that you wrote the 15[th] of this month and I still love you. Well it[‘]s raining like the Devil to-day [sic] and I got wet twice. Well I’m quarantine[d] with the measles…
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