Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 5, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 5, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard answered some questions Yvette asked him in a previous letter. Then, he reminisced about times spent back home.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-11-05
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (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
1943-11-05
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Correspondences
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Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Nov. 5, 1943
Dear Yvette:
I love you so much to night [sic] that I don’t know what to say. I like my birthday present a lot and darling you shouldn’t of spent all that money for me But I love you so much at I can’t scold you to-night [sic]. I’m going to start answering some of those questions that you asked me/ No. “1” It’s about problems, well its [sic] just like playing cops + robber. Now for No. “2” You ask [sic] if I like
[page 2]
driving well its [sic] like this when a wac. take my office job away from me they put me driving and in the army you generally do as your [sic] told or “else.” No. “3” No darling I don’t sleep in a big barracks because I [sic] much rather be in the small sleeping quarters that joins the Motors Park where we keep the Trucks. Its [sic] got about fifteen bed in it and we don’t have to put the light and at night until we want to and it isn’t like having sixty five
[page 3]
to ninety guys interupting [sic] you all the time. Well so much for that. How are you? I would like to see you for a change. In the [illegible deletion] Post Office to night [sic] when I went a [sic] got the package I met a guy who said that he saw us at the Totam [sic] Pole when we went this summer and I asked him where he was from and he said [illegible]. Darling I in you [sic] P.S. you mentioned a little car. Do I remember It: I sure do. Those were the good old days. I wish we were back some time but
[page 4]
then you didn’t love me as much and it wouldn’t be so good. Well darling good night and thanks again for everything. And darling thanks for the war bond and Bill fold both. I love you and until to morrow [sic] Good night + pleasant dreams (I hope). Love Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you.
Nov. 5, 1943
Dear Yvette:
I love you so much to night [sic] that I don’t know what to say. I like my birthday present a lot and darling you shouldn’t of spent all that money for me But I love you so much at I can’t scold you to-night [sic]. I’m going to start answering some of those questions that you asked me/ No. “1” It’s about problems, well its [sic] just like playing cops + robber. Now for No. “2” You ask [sic] if I like
[page 2]
driving well its [sic] like this when a wac. take my office job away from me they put me driving and in the army you generally do as your [sic] told or “else.” No. “3” No darling I don’t sleep in a big barracks because I [sic] much rather be in the small sleeping quarters that joins the Motors Park where we keep the Trucks. Its [sic] got about fifteen bed in it and we don’t have to put the light and at night until we want to and it isn’t like having sixty five
[page 3]
to ninety guys interupting [sic] you all the time. Well so much for that. How are you? I would like to see you for a change. In the [illegible deletion] Post Office to night [sic] when I went a [sic] got the package I met a guy who said that he saw us at the Totam [sic] Pole when we went this summer and I asked him where he was from and he said [illegible]. Darling I in you [sic] P.S. you mentioned a little car. Do I remember It: I sure do. Those were the good old days. I wish we were back some time but
[page 4]
then you didn’t love me as much and it wouldn’t be so good. Well darling good night and thanks again for everything. And darling thanks for the war bond and Bill fold both. I love you and until to morrow [sic] Good night + pleasant dreams (I hope). Love Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 5, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1142.