Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 12, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 12, 1945
Description
Howard talks about the other soldiers kidding around with him and complains that the song playing on the radio is just rubbing his loneliness in.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-06-12
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1945-06-12
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Correspondences
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Laufen
June 12, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well hows [sic] my little wife to night [sic]? I’m fine I think. Gee darling I miss you more every day. To day [sic] everything went on as usual and mummy I’m getting tired of this living alone with a bunch of fellows. The boys start kidding me by asking me how can you want to go back home and sleep in a nice soft bed between to [sic] clean sheets and I keep telling them that I could learn. Gee I hope I get
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home pretty soon. On the radio they’re playing a little on the lonely side [sic]. Are they trying to kid me? Honest darling I love you so much and if they told me I’d miss you this much four or five years ago I’ll [sic] tell them they we’re [sic] crazy but I sure love you. Darling I got the card from you to-day [sic]. You just missed the day by one. I love you so much and I wish I could be with you to morrow [sic]. I’d give anything to be with you darling I’m really lonely I got to leave now Goodnight darling. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you mummy.
June 12, 1945
Dearest Yve.,
Well hows [sic] my little wife to night [sic]? I’m fine I think. Gee darling I miss you more every day. To day [sic] everything went on as usual and mummy I’m getting tired of this living alone with a bunch of fellows. The boys start kidding me by asking me how can you want to go back home and sleep in a nice soft bed between to [sic] clean sheets and I keep telling them that I could learn. Gee I hope I get
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home pretty soon. On the radio they’re playing a little on the lonely side [sic]. Are they trying to kid me? Honest darling I love you so much and if they told me I’d miss you this much four or five years ago I’ll [sic] tell them they we’re [sic] crazy but I sure love you. Darling I got the card from you to-day [sic]. You just missed the day by one. I love you so much and I wish I could be with you to morrow [sic]. I’d give anything to be with you darling I’m really lonely I got to leave now Goodnight darling. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you mummy.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 12, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1009.