Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 12, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 12, 1945
Description
Howard changed his mind about when he's coming home yet again. He won't be home tomorrow but hopefully before Christmas. He's really fed up with the point system.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-12-12
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
1945-12-12
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Correspondences
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Dec. 12, 1945
Wednesday
Dearest Yve. + ?,
Well darling I’ve changed my mind again. I may not be out but I’ve still got hopes of being home for christmas the reason I’ve only got 51 points is that they just count them up until Sept. 2nd. If they counted them until now I’d have enough or 54 but they don’t so here I’m going crazy trying to figure the point system out. The only way I can figure it is the guys that stayed out of the army and had a dozen kids while we were in the army get out the first. If that makes sence [sic] to you well I don’t know. Some of the guys that getting out
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to-day [sic] have about 18 months service and had there [sic] two kids while I was in the army. That why I say there’s no justice anymore. I think when they adopted the point system they asked a bunch of recruits how they should discharge men. About 50 to 75 percent of the men that got discharge had from 7 to 20 months in the army with about the three Kids apeice [sic]. In other words if I had stayed home [illegible deletion] and had a couple of kids I’d be a civillian [sic] now. See I’m kind of fed up on this damn army. I wish I could go home and live a nice life. Last week they restricted us, they won’t give us any passes and saturday they wouldn’t pay us so what’s a guy going to do. Now they want to know why we’re mad. They keep telling us it because we’re going to get out
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of the army that why we can’t go any where [sic] and got no money. The money part don’t bother me because I have enough. That’s enough darling of my complain I love you so very much and I want you so much I shouldn’t bother you with all the troubles I have in the army. About you buying the furniture for the apartment [sic], its [sic] ok darling I’ll like what you get I always do don’t I? I love you so much I can’t wait until I get home and hold you in my arms again. Gee honey I hope I have some news to-morrow [sic] so until then dont [sic] worry darling and I’ll always love you. As Ever. Your worst half.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you + ? both very much.
Wednesday
Dearest Yve. + ?,
Well darling I’ve changed my mind again. I may not be out but I’ve still got hopes of being home for christmas the reason I’ve only got 51 points is that they just count them up until Sept. 2nd. If they counted them until now I’d have enough or 54 but they don’t so here I’m going crazy trying to figure the point system out. The only way I can figure it is the guys that stayed out of the army and had a dozen kids while we were in the army get out the first. If that makes sence [sic] to you well I don’t know. Some of the guys that getting out
[Page 2]
to-day [sic] have about 18 months service and had there [sic] two kids while I was in the army. That why I say there’s no justice anymore. I think when they adopted the point system they asked a bunch of recruits how they should discharge men. About 50 to 75 percent of the men that got discharge had from 7 to 20 months in the army with about the three Kids apeice [sic]. In other words if I had stayed home [illegible deletion] and had a couple of kids I’d be a civillian [sic] now. See I’m kind of fed up on this damn army. I wish I could go home and live a nice life. Last week they restricted us, they won’t give us any passes and saturday they wouldn’t pay us so what’s a guy going to do. Now they want to know why we’re mad. They keep telling us it because we’re going to get out
[Page 3]
of the army that why we can’t go any where [sic] and got no money. The money part don’t bother me because I have enough. That’s enough darling of my complain I love you so very much and I want you so much I shouldn’t bother you with all the troubles I have in the army. About you buying the furniture for the apartment [sic], its [sic] ok darling I’ll like what you get I always do don’t I? I love you so much I can’t wait until I get home and hold you in my arms again. Gee honey I hope I have some news to-morrow [sic] so until then dont [sic] worry darling and I’ll always love you. As Ever. Your worst half.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you + ? both very much.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 12, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1034.