Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 19, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 19, 1945
Description
Howard talks about a screening that may occur to determine who will be sent to Japan. He doesn’t think he will be, though he also doesn’t think he will be discharged soon. He also talks a bit about the journey to California.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-09-19
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
1945-09-19
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Correspondences
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Camp Cooke, Calif
Sept. 19, 1945
My Dearest darling,
Gee I miss you so very very much and I don’t like it out here at all and darling there is no place here for a wife. I wish there was though because I want you so much. Gee darling I hope I don’t stay out here very long because it’s not so good. I guess we are going to get screened next week to see just how many of us will go over sea’s [sic]. I don’t think that I’ll go though but I don’t get a discharge yet either either. This army really does [things?] crazy just like the way
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they brought us out here. We went through eighteen states to get here and Im [sic] never going to come out here again even if you want to come even. They got me out here and now they talk about giving furlough. I don’t know just how long they will be here but it will have to be a long one for me to get home and have any time at all. Gee darling I love you and I want you more than ever and by the way darling is it going to be a junior or what yet. I’m all up in the air, let me know when your [sic] sure or tell me even if your [sic] not.
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I love you darling I love you I love you I love you. Gee darling I just don’t know - I’m going to wait till they decide to let me out. I got to go now but you can at least write to me. I love you very much darling. Lots of love. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you with all those Fixing’s
[The envelope is included with this letter.]
Sept. 19, 1945
My Dearest darling,
Gee I miss you so very very much and I don’t like it out here at all and darling there is no place here for a wife. I wish there was though because I want you so much. Gee darling I hope I don’t stay out here very long because it’s not so good. I guess we are going to get screened next week to see just how many of us will go over sea’s [sic]. I don’t think that I’ll go though but I don’t get a discharge yet either either. This army really does [things?] crazy just like the way
[Page 2]
they brought us out here. We went through eighteen states to get here and Im [sic] never going to come out here again even if you want to come even. They got me out here and now they talk about giving furlough. I don’t know just how long they will be here but it will have to be a long one for me to get home and have any time at all. Gee darling I love you and I want you more than ever and by the way darling is it going to be a junior or what yet. I’m all up in the air, let me know when your [sic] sure or tell me even if your [sic] not.
[Page 3]
I love you darling I love you I love you I love you. Gee darling I just don’t know - I’m going to wait till they decide to let me out. I got to go now but you can at least write to me. I love you very much darling. Lots of love. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you with all those Fixing’s
[The envelope is included with this letter.]
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 19, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1047.