Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1945
Description
Howard talks about feeling very sorry after reading a letter from Yvette and assures her that he still loves her. He apologizes for not being able to send out a money order and explains all the trouble he’s gone through trying to get one. He also relates the story of some of his travels to Yvette.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-06-24
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
1945-06-24
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Correspondences
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Laufen
June 24, 1945
My beautiful wife,
Don’t think for one minuit [sic] that I don’t love you. You are on my mind all the time. I got a letter from you to day [sic] where we had the heart to heart talk and I’m really awful sorry. I’m sorry to tell you a little story. For the last three weeks I was trying to get a money order made out so either Mom or Betty or Pauline could by [sic] you Orchids for the thirteenth but I could get it and I still can’t get one. I even drove to division Headquarters
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[at?] [illegible] [which?] is around 70 miles away [illegible words] couldn’t send this invasion money because it [illegible] good, and last of all I couldn’t ask my folks or sister or Pualine to buy them for me, [it may?] [illegible deletion] sound funny but Its [sic] me. I even asked all the boys in the company for some us U.S. money that they hadn’t turned in but they didn’t have any. Darling I love you so very much that I’d do anything in this world for you. I’ve been so busy the last month that I’m just about falling asleep when I sit down. I have’nt [sic] [illegible deletion] been telling you this because you’d worry and now I got to tell some one [sic]
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honest darling I’m fed up with this war and separation. I’ve been working longer and harder than I did when we we’re [sic] fighting and its no kidding. Well darling I’ll try to tell you where and why and when and where abouts [sic] of my trip across. I went back to camp the fifth of feb. and was restricted all that day and in the morning we left by train to Boston at 4 A.M. and got on the boat named the Brazil which we made our home for fifteen days. We landed a [sic] [Le Harve?] and from there [illegible] by truck to Ry, which is about [illegible] miles rom Ruen. On Easter we left for Belguim [sic]
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then Holand [sic] and Germany and now I’m about 90 miles south of Munich on the [Austrian?] border. We were attached to the 15th first then as they go were the order off 1st 9th 3rd 7th and now back in the 3rd. thats [sic] about as much as I can tell you or it would take me a [month?]. When I get home I’ll tell you all about it and I promis [sic] I won’t forget because if I couldn’t forget because I drove all of it and mostly blackout at night. Darling this is not a very nice letter with me doing all the griping but its [sic] really the way I feel and maybe to morrow [sic] Ill [sic] be more cheerful. I love you from the bottom of my heart darling and always will. Yours only,
Howard
June 24, 1945
My beautiful wife,
Don’t think for one minuit [sic] that I don’t love you. You are on my mind all the time. I got a letter from you to day [sic] where we had the heart to heart talk and I’m really awful sorry. I’m sorry to tell you a little story. For the last three weeks I was trying to get a money order made out so either Mom or Betty or Pauline could by [sic] you Orchids for the thirteenth but I could get it and I still can’t get one. I even drove to division Headquarters
[Page 2]
[at?] [illegible] [which?] is around 70 miles away [illegible words] couldn’t send this invasion money because it [illegible] good, and last of all I couldn’t ask my folks or sister or Pualine to buy them for me, [it may?] [illegible deletion] sound funny but Its [sic] me. I even asked all the boys in the company for some us U.S. money that they hadn’t turned in but they didn’t have any. Darling I love you so very much that I’d do anything in this world for you. I’ve been so busy the last month that I’m just about falling asleep when I sit down. I have’nt [sic] [illegible deletion] been telling you this because you’d worry and now I got to tell some one [sic]
[Page 3]
honest darling I’m fed up with this war and separation. I’ve been working longer and harder than I did when we we’re [sic] fighting and its no kidding. Well darling I’ll try to tell you where and why and when and where abouts [sic] of my trip across. I went back to camp the fifth of feb. and was restricted all that day and in the morning we left by train to Boston at 4 A.M. and got on the boat named the Brazil which we made our home for fifteen days. We landed a [sic] [Le Harve?] and from there [illegible] by truck to Ry, which is about [illegible] miles rom Ruen. On Easter we left for Belguim [sic]
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then Holand [sic] and Germany and now I’m about 90 miles south of Munich on the [Austrian?] border. We were attached to the 15th first then as they go were the order off 1st 9th 3rd 7th and now back in the 3rd. thats [sic] about as much as I can tell you or it would take me a [month?]. When I get home I’ll tell you all about it and I promis [sic] I won’t forget because if I couldn’t forget because I drove all of it and mostly blackout at night. Darling this is not a very nice letter with me doing all the griping but its [sic] really the way I feel and maybe to morrow [sic] Ill [sic] be more cheerful. I love you from the bottom of my heart darling and always will. Yours only,
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1031.