Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 8, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 8, 1943.
Subject
Furlough, Love
Description
Howard describes how he has missed Yvette like crazy lately and wants a furlough.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-04-08
Contributor
Will Kuball (transcription, metadata, digitization)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-04-08
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
April 8, 1943
Hello darling.
How[‘]s everything? I got the package that you sent and everything in it was ok [sic]. I haven’t written for the past three or four days because I have been pretty busy. It’s got so down here that you don’t know what your [sic] doing half the time and to-night [sic] it[‘s] so hot here I [am] running around here in my shorts. Gee I wish I could see you
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again I miss you so much. I don’t know when I’ve missed so much as I have lately. Well darling it looks as though I’ll spend this summer on this side of the ocean but you can never tell where I’ll spend Christmas. From what they tell me we won’t be here next winter. I told them that I hope to be home by that time. Well if I don’t get a furlough pretty soon I think I [will] take one.
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When are you coming down to see me, darling?I know that end of the question but I wish it was so that you could. I love you so much that some times [sic] I wish I was shipped far enough a way [sic] so I would know it was [the] end of the question to go home. What hurts me most is that according to the army rules and regulation I’m entitled to about 13 days and they can give it to me but the first Sgt. [Sergeant]
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is one of those guys that says you’ll get a furlough when I get one. Oh well I guess I have to wait. I [have] been trying to get a pass to see Bill and that[‘s] no good either. The [first Sergeant] said that they can’t give any at the present time. Well goodnight darling and have a good dream, any way [sic]. I hope that you’ll be waiting when the war ends. I love you more every day. Lots of love.
Howard.
April 8, 1943
Hello darling.
How[‘]s everything? I got the package that you sent and everything in it was ok [sic]. I haven’t written for the past three or four days because I have been pretty busy. It’s got so down here that you don’t know what your [sic] doing half the time and to-night [sic] it[‘s] so hot here I [am] running around here in my shorts. Gee I wish I could see you
[Page 2]
again I miss you so much. I don’t know when I’ve missed so much as I have lately. Well darling it looks as though I’ll spend this summer on this side of the ocean but you can never tell where I’ll spend Christmas. From what they tell me we won’t be here next winter. I told them that I hope to be home by that time. Well if I don’t get a furlough pretty soon I think I [will] take one.
[Page 3]
When are you coming down to see me, darling?I know that end of the question but I wish it was so that you could. I love you so much that some times [sic] I wish I was shipped far enough a way [sic] so I would know it was [the] end of the question to go home. What hurts me most is that according to the army rules and regulation I’m entitled to about 13 days and they can give it to me but the first Sgt. [Sergeant]
[Page 4]
is one of those guys that says you’ll get a furlough when I get one. Oh well I guess I have to wait. I [have] been trying to get a pass to see Bill and that[‘s] no good either. The [first Sergeant] said that they can’t give any at the present time. Well goodnight darling and have a good dream, any way [sic]. I hope that you’ll be waiting when the war ends. I love you more every day. Lots of love.
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 8, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 30, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1076.