Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 5, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 5, 1945
Description
Howard is very disappointed because he won't be getting a discharge for about another month. The army decided to discharge men with three children first.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-12-05
Contributor
Huebner, John (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
1945-12-05
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Correspondences
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Dec. 5, 1945
Wednesday
Dearest Wife,
This should be a nice letter but it won’t. The way I feel is just what I’m going to write. The division sent down orders to stop all the discharges of fifty point men and to discharge all men with three children so now you know how and why i feel so mad. Most of these guys with three kids just come in the army less than six months ago and I think another month won’t hurt them. They would stop the discharges just when I was about third on the list in the company. Of course the orders are subject to change. The way it look now I’ll be very lucky if I get home before new Years and darling I’m fed up with this damn army. They just shipped in a
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bunch of 400 men with three kids and thats [sic] whats [sic] holding up our discharge. I think it unfair myself but you can’t change the way the army operates and they do every thing backwards. Everybody is making a big stink over but it don’t do any good. Well honey I doing my best but my moral is at the bottom. I’m still trying to get home for christmas. The only good part is I keep dreaming of you every time I go to sleep and they are all very nice dreams. All about you and I in our nice apartment [sic] and having so much fun. I love you darling and please keep writing to me even if something changes and I don’t get the letter I’ll get them when I get home. I didn’t get a letter to-day [sic] and I miss you so darn much. I love you darling and always will. As Ever.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you both more.
Wednesday
Dearest Wife,
This should be a nice letter but it won’t. The way I feel is just what I’m going to write. The division sent down orders to stop all the discharges of fifty point men and to discharge all men with three children so now you know how and why i feel so mad. Most of these guys with three kids just come in the army less than six months ago and I think another month won’t hurt them. They would stop the discharges just when I was about third on the list in the company. Of course the orders are subject to change. The way it look now I’ll be very lucky if I get home before new Years and darling I’m fed up with this damn army. They just shipped in a
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bunch of 400 men with three kids and thats [sic] whats [sic] holding up our discharge. I think it unfair myself but you can’t change the way the army operates and they do every thing backwards. Everybody is making a big stink over but it don’t do any good. Well honey I doing my best but my moral is at the bottom. I’m still trying to get home for christmas. The only good part is I keep dreaming of you every time I go to sleep and they are all very nice dreams. All about you and I in our nice apartment [sic] and having so much fun. I love you darling and please keep writing to me even if something changes and I don’t get the letter I’ll get them when I get home. I didn’t get a letter to-day [sic] and I miss you so darn much. I love you darling and always will. As Ever.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you both more.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 5, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1026.