Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 11, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 11, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
Howard tells Yvette that the weather has been terrible and they had a night assignment as well. He also tells her he saw a movie and says that he misses her a lot.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-09-11
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
1944-09-11
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Correspondences
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[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 11, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dearest Yvette,
Well darling how’s every thing [sic] to day? [sic] Down here the weather is terrible its [sic] been raining all last night and all day to day, [sic] but it finally stoped [sic] around five to-night. [sic] We had one of those all night affairs last night and we all got pleanty [sic] wet so the C.O. finally decided to let us come back to the barracks to get dry clothes and a good-night [sic] sleep because to morrow [sic] night we stay out again. Well darling after I got in to-night [sic] I took a shower and shave (only because I needed one) and then ate chow. Ray saw me and asked me to go to the show and of course I went. The picture was (The bride by mistake) which I thought was pretty good,
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anyway it was different. Yve. was [sic] you lonely the night when you put you [sic] name with your return address on the envelope or we’re [sic] you just practicing. [sic] Gee darling I nothing new ever happens to me down here, it’s just the same old thing. I wish I was home where I could do more good at least I think I could anyway. Darling I miss you so much that I wish some time [sic] that you stayed but then I say to my self [sic] it wouldn’t do much good because I wouldn’t be able to see you hardly at all. Darling I guess I’ll go to bed now so until to morrow. [sic] I’ll be thinking of you all the time. I love you and need you and I’m awfully glad I married you 165. Always yours,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you just the same darling.
Sept. 11, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Dearest Yvette,
Well darling how’s every thing [sic] to day? [sic] Down here the weather is terrible its [sic] been raining all last night and all day to day, [sic] but it finally stoped [sic] around five to-night. [sic] We had one of those all night affairs last night and we all got pleanty [sic] wet so the C.O. finally decided to let us come back to the barracks to get dry clothes and a good-night [sic] sleep because to morrow [sic] night we stay out again. Well darling after I got in to-night [sic] I took a shower and shave (only because I needed one) and then ate chow. Ray saw me and asked me to go to the show and of course I went. The picture was (The bride by mistake) which I thought was pretty good,
[Page 2]
anyway it was different. Yve. was [sic] you lonely the night when you put you [sic] name with your return address on the envelope or we’re [sic] you just practicing. [sic] Gee darling I nothing new ever happens to me down here, it’s just the same old thing. I wish I was home where I could do more good at least I think I could anyway. Darling I miss you so much that I wish some time [sic] that you stayed but then I say to my self [sic] it wouldn’t do much good because I wouldn’t be able to see you hardly at all. Darling I guess I’ll go to bed now so until to morrow. [sic] I’ll be thinking of you all the time. I love you and need you and I’m awfully glad I married you 165. Always yours,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you just the same darling.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 11, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1167.