Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 5, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 5, 1943.
Subject
Furlough, Military life
Description
Howard described his lack of sleep, his rigorous schedule all the while wanting a furlough.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-04-05
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-04-05
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Original Format
Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 5, 1943
Hello darling.
Well I got three letters to day [sic] and I’m sorry if I said anything in them (I mean my letter or letters to you) to hurt your feeling[s]. That would be the last thing I would ever want to do. I also got a letter from Barbara and she told me about a little girl I know who thinks that when we get married that if we ever have a boy instead
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of a girl that I won’t like it. You ought to know darling that I would like either a boy or girl. Gee I love you so much that anything you do or say is ok [sic] with me. I got a package from my mom to day [sic] so I won’t go around with that beard that I started to grow. I had some razor blades in it and a lot of candy an[d] cookies to[o]. It sure make[s] a guy feel good to get mail. I don’t
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know, it’s kind of a funny feeling when you go to mail call and you don’t get any. Well I had a hard day again to-day [sic]. I had to be one of the coaches on the firing line and the guys that was [sic] firing was [sic] the General’s staff. That means we had everyone from our division, general down to the clerk, in his offices. Well darling I [am] pretty tired to-night [sic].
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Here it is eleven o’clock and I got [up] at 4:45 this morning. I hope I don’t have to do it all week. I [am] still planning on getting a furlough even though he (the first Sgt.) [Sergeant] says I haven’t a chance. Well take care of your self [sic] and I love you more every day [sic] and don’t worry about a boy I love you.
Howard.
April 5, 1943
Hello darling.
Well I got three letters to day [sic] and I’m sorry if I said anything in them (I mean my letter or letters to you) to hurt your feeling[s]. That would be the last thing I would ever want to do. I also got a letter from Barbara and she told me about a little girl I know who thinks that when we get married that if we ever have a boy instead
[Page 2]
of a girl that I won’t like it. You ought to know darling that I would like either a boy or girl. Gee I love you so much that anything you do or say is ok [sic] with me. I got a package from my mom to day [sic] so I won’t go around with that beard that I started to grow. I had some razor blades in it and a lot of candy an[d] cookies to[o]. It sure make[s] a guy feel good to get mail. I don’t
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know, it’s kind of a funny feeling when you go to mail call and you don’t get any. Well I had a hard day again to-day [sic]. I had to be one of the coaches on the firing line and the guys that was [sic] firing was [sic] the General’s staff. That means we had everyone from our division, general down to the clerk, in his offices. Well darling I [am] pretty tired to-night [sic].
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Here it is eleven o’clock and I got [up] at 4:45 this morning. I hope I don’t have to do it all week. I [am] still planning on getting a furlough even though he (the first Sgt.) [Sergeant] says I haven’t a chance. Well take care of your self [sic] and I love you more every day [sic] and don’t worry about a boy I love you.
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 5, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 3, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1075.