Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 12, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 12, 1945
Description
[This is the first of two letters written on this date.]
Howard complains about loneliness but takes comfort in the fact that he’ll be able to receive mail from Yvette again soon. He considers going to see a movie and talks more about how many points he has left to earn until he can be discharged.
Howard complains about loneliness but takes comfort in the fact that he’ll be able to receive mail from Yvette again soon. He considers going to see a movie and talks more about how many points he has left to earn until he can be discharged.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-09-12
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
Type
Text
Identifier
1945-09-12_01
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Correspondences
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[The following is written on USO stationary. At the top of the front side of each page, there is a picture of a waving flag emblazoned with “U S O”. Along the bottom of the front of each page is typed the names of various organizations followed by “U S O IS FINANCED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THROUGH THE NATIONAL WAR FUND.”]
Fort Devens
Sept. 12, 1945
Hi darling,
Well here it is Wednesday and I’m not gone yet. The shipping order has been posted though and it [sic] for to morrow [sic]. By the way tomorrow is the 13th and we’ve been married fifteen months and gee darling I miss you more than ever, right now I couldn’t be lonelier. You know darling I guess I was never cut out to be in the army in the first place. They could just as well let us go home for the last three days but
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no they [illegible deletion] had to keep us here. Well Yve. hows [sic] everything with you? I hope your [sic] not giving all those lesson [sic] thats [sic] you had on the list. You know theres [sic] one good thing about shipping I [sic] be able to get mail from you and get all the news from you and then I’ll have something to write about, as it is I didn’t do anything but get up this morning and had chow and then had dinner. I think darling I [sic] go to a show to-night before I go nuts, this hanging around will drive
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a guy crazy. Do you know what I did? Well I bought another cigarette lighter and this one has lasted three days so far and looks as though it [sic] pretty good. Gee I wish I had enough points to get out of this place. Well thats [sic] enough of my complaining I guess it just as hard for all the rest of the guys. I shouldn’t complain because for the last thirty two days I’ve had the best time I ever had and I love you so very much that I can wait for anything I’m only short 2½ [kids?] to
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get a discharge (29 points) or if I was ten years older but I would’nt [sic] want to be 35 because I want to spend that ten years with you, even though you don’t want me to eat in the morning. There [sic] not much more I can write now darling so I guess Ill [sic] say good night I love you and I always will. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you most.
Fort Devens
Sept. 12, 1945
Hi darling,
Well here it is Wednesday and I’m not gone yet. The shipping order has been posted though and it [sic] for to morrow [sic]. By the way tomorrow is the 13th and we’ve been married fifteen months and gee darling I miss you more than ever, right now I couldn’t be lonelier. You know darling I guess I was never cut out to be in the army in the first place. They could just as well let us go home for the last three days but
[Page 2]
no they [illegible deletion] had to keep us here. Well Yve. hows [sic] everything with you? I hope your [sic] not giving all those lesson [sic] thats [sic] you had on the list. You know theres [sic] one good thing about shipping I [sic] be able to get mail from you and get all the news from you and then I’ll have something to write about, as it is I didn’t do anything but get up this morning and had chow and then had dinner. I think darling I [sic] go to a show to-night before I go nuts, this hanging around will drive
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a guy crazy. Do you know what I did? Well I bought another cigarette lighter and this one has lasted three days so far and looks as though it [sic] pretty good. Gee I wish I had enough points to get out of this place. Well thats [sic] enough of my complaining I guess it just as hard for all the rest of the guys. I shouldn’t complain because for the last thirty two days I’ve had the best time I ever had and I love you so very much that I can wait for anything I’m only short 2½ [kids?] to
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get a discharge (29 points) or if I was ten years older but I would’nt [sic] want to be 35 because I want to spend that ten years with you, even though you don’t want me to eat in the morning. There [sic] not much more I can write now darling so I guess Ill [sic] say good night I love you and I always will. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you most.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 12, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1045.