Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 13, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 13, 1945
Description
Howard reminisces on the previous year when he and Yvette got married. He also thinks back to Munich when he dug a foxhole. He also mentions being thankful to have come out of the war more or less without a scratch.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-06-13
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (digitization, transcription, metadata)
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
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Text
Identifier
1945-06-13
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Correspondences
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Laufen
June 13, 1945
My Darling Bride,
Gee darling I’m so glad I married you. Last year at this time we we’re in Hartford Conn. eating turkey and when you said something about eating a lot because we might be hungry befor [sic] morning and then the blue pajamas deal and gee darling I love you so darn much. From there to Ocean beach where we got so much sunburn that we could hardly sleep but I enjoyed every
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bit of it and would do it all over again if I could. Darling Its [sic] been raining all day to-day [sic] just like the day we went into Munich. That is the day I really dug a big fox hole because when I stood up in it I could hardly see out of it and maybe it was a good thing because the Germans didn’t [illegible deletion] care what they fried [sic] the 88’s at. I saw them fire an 88 at a single man almost point blank. So much for that. if [sic] I start writing about that I’ll never finish.
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Gee darling it look [sic] like I’ll never get home. I want to see you so much and yet what do the do. I can’t complain too much so far because I have’nt [sic] had a scratch yet, well anyway not a bad scratch. I love you so much. Just let me get a hold of you once and I’ll show you how h [sic] much I love you (cave man huh). No kidding I’d like to get home before summers [sic] over but the chances are very slim but you can never tell I might. I got to go now but darling I want you to know I love you
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and I’ll write to morrow [sic] so until then Just [sic] remember I’m still very much alive and I love you. Always Yours,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. Rock a by Baby, Mummy
June 13, 1945
My Darling Bride,
Gee darling I’m so glad I married you. Last year at this time we we’re in Hartford Conn. eating turkey and when you said something about eating a lot because we might be hungry befor [sic] morning and then the blue pajamas deal and gee darling I love you so darn much. From there to Ocean beach where we got so much sunburn that we could hardly sleep but I enjoyed every
[Page 2]
bit of it and would do it all over again if I could. Darling Its [sic] been raining all day to-day [sic] just like the day we went into Munich. That is the day I really dug a big fox hole because when I stood up in it I could hardly see out of it and maybe it was a good thing because the Germans didn’t [illegible deletion] care what they fried [sic] the 88’s at. I saw them fire an 88 at a single man almost point blank. So much for that. if [sic] I start writing about that I’ll never finish.
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Gee darling it look [sic] like I’ll never get home. I want to see you so much and yet what do the do. I can’t complain too much so far because I have’nt [sic] had a scratch yet, well anyway not a bad scratch. I love you so much. Just let me get a hold of you once and I’ll show you how h [sic] much I love you (cave man huh). No kidding I’d like to get home before summers [sic] over but the chances are very slim but you can never tell I might. I got to go now but darling I want you to know I love you
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and I’ll write to morrow [sic] so until then Just [sic] remember I’m still very much alive and I love you. Always Yours,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. Rock a by Baby, Mummy
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 13, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1010.