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- Tags: Love
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…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 28, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 28, 1943
Hello darling:
Well another day is gone and I still love you very much. How about you? There was nothing new happening to day [sic] around here. Nothing ever does. Darling how’s your grandmother to day [sic]?…
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 30, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Aug. 30, 1942
Darling
I just arrived at the camp and boy is [sic] is hot. I miss you and how. These brownies were swell. I got in [W]orcester and I met Vic and her brother as I got off the bus you know Proulx’s girlfriend. Then…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 14, 1942
My darling little Yve
I haven’t had a letter from you for three days and I wonder if your mad. Sunday night I went to the show and after the show I came by the officers club and they were having a dance. It was…
Tags: Crying, Half-Track, Love, Officers club, song, Star-Dust
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 5, 1942
Darling Yve,
I love you and this is going to be a short letter. I think your [sic] wonderful. I love those blue eyes and the dimple when you brush your teeth. I love the way you comb your hair. I love you the way…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 8, 1942
Yve Darling
I just got your letter telling me how lonely you are, well I feel the same way about you. I love you so much it hurts. At night just before I go to bed I got a lot of time to think and I think of all…
Tags: Love, Military life, Truck
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 8, 1943
Hello darling:
I haven’t heard from you for three days now are you mad? I’ve been out on a little camping trip as they say in civilian life and just got back. Darling you seem to think I don’t want you to go to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 17, 1942
Darling Yve,
I have been so darn busy I haven’t been able to write. I been on the go all the time. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t want to write but some times [sic] it impossible. In your letter you think I…
Tags: Blackout, Love, Military life, Passing out
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 29, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 29, 1943
Hi darling:
Gee I wish I could of [sic] been at the recital. I bet it was good. In fact everything you do is good. Darling I hope you have a very good time on your vacation too because I know you’ve earned it.…
Tags: Love
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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