Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 1, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 1, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
Howard tells Yvette he is thankful for the brownies that she sent to him and he tells her that the conditions are terrible due to a lot of rain. He also tells her that he was sent out into the field today.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-09-01
Contributor
Miller, Christine (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
1944-09-01
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
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Correspondences
Text
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 1, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Wifey,
First I want to thank you for them [sic] wonderful brownies and that good fudge. It was really good and Ray says that you can cook too. Second I want to thank you for sending that picture and darling that came out real good too. I like it a lot. Well to get back to last night, I didn’t write because I got back from the night problem at three o’clock this morning and I’m telling you it was terrible. It had rained all day and it didn’t stop until this morning about seven and it wasn’t one of these rains that
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stop every fifteen minutes either. Everybody was wet and when we got in I was really too tired to even take a shower. Well anyway they got us up at five and sent us out in the field to day [sic] and I for in kind of early this after noon [sic] and went and got a hair cut [sic] and now I’m in the day room is at night so why do they call it a day room? Well darling I guess you get tired of listening to me complaine [sic] about this army so I’m sending you a little slip of paper showing how some body [sic] else feel [sic] about it. Ray’s got the war all won so I guess we’ll be coming home
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soon. According to him we ought to be home for christmas but you know as well as I do that it won’t happen. Well darling I guess that I’ll turn in early to night [sic] because it [sic] a five o’clock call in the morning. Gee darling I love you so much I wish this war would hurry up and end so we could live. Thanks again for everything darling and I’m so glad I married you. I love you so very much. Take care of your self [sic] and say hello to everybody for me. Your loving husband,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I wish I was there so I could say hello myself. I love you Yve.
Sept. 1, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Wifey,
First I want to thank you for them [sic] wonderful brownies and that good fudge. It was really good and Ray says that you can cook too. Second I want to thank you for sending that picture and darling that came out real good too. I like it a lot. Well to get back to last night, I didn’t write because I got back from the night problem at three o’clock this morning and I’m telling you it was terrible. It had rained all day and it didn’t stop until this morning about seven and it wasn’t one of these rains that
[Page 2]
stop every fifteen minutes either. Everybody was wet and when we got in I was really too tired to even take a shower. Well anyway they got us up at five and sent us out in the field to day [sic] and I for in kind of early this after noon [sic] and went and got a hair cut [sic] and now I’m in the day room is at night so why do they call it a day room? Well darling I guess you get tired of listening to me complaine [sic] about this army so I’m sending you a little slip of paper showing how some body [sic] else feel [sic] about it. Ray’s got the war all won so I guess we’ll be coming home
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soon. According to him we ought to be home for christmas but you know as well as I do that it won’t happen. Well darling I guess that I’ll turn in early to night [sic] because it [sic] a five o’clock call in the morning. Gee darling I love you so much I wish this war would hurry up and end so we could live. Thanks again for everything darling and I’m so glad I married you. I love you so very much. Take care of your self [sic] and say hello to everybody for me. Your loving husband,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I wish I was there so I could say hello myself. I love you Yve.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 1, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 12, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1125.