Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 24, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 24, 1942
Subject
Military life
Love-Letters
Description
They sent off a lot of people from his company but they missed him. He still wants her ring size because Xmas is coming up.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College
Date
1942-09-24
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1942-09-24
Coverage
Fort knox, Kentucky
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Sept. 24, 1942
Hi Darling
Well here I am again, it is now 2:30 in the morning and I’m writing you a letter. That show you how much I love you[?] I’m in the guard house now no I did’nt [sic] do anything wrong. I’m just a guard to-night [sic], I’ve been trying to find time to write to you but for the last 6 days I’ve been so busy that I couldn’t. Darling you don’t know how lucky I am they called out 36 Pvt. out of my company to go across and they missed me. They took all my buddies that I go around with. They called them in in [sic] the morning and shipped them out the next day and they would’nt [sic] let the[m] even
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write. Well darling so much for that. I asked you for your ring size and you said ½ size smaller than your [illegible deletion] class ring that[‘]s tilling [sic] me a lot. You better hurry up Xmas is coming and I still love you. I write a little later when I got more time. [U]ntil then good night darling. I love you. Love
Howard
Sept. 24, 1942
Hi Darling
Well here I am again, it is now 2:30 in the morning and I’m writing you a letter. That show you how much I love you[?] I’m in the guard house now no I did’nt [sic] do anything wrong. I’m just a guard to-night [sic], I’ve been trying to find time to write to you but for the last 6 days I’ve been so busy that I couldn’t. Darling you don’t know how lucky I am they called out 36 Pvt. out of my company to go across and they missed me. They took all my buddies that I go around with. They called them in in [sic] the morning and shipped them out the next day and they would’nt [sic] let the[m] even
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write. Well darling so much for that. I asked you for your ring size and you said ½ size smaller than your [illegible deletion] class ring that[‘]s tilling [sic] me a lot. You better hurry up Xmas is coming and I still love you. I write a little later when I got more time. [U]ntil then good night darling. I love you. Love
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 24, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 28, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1192.