Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 6, 1943.

Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 6, 1943.

Routine, Furloughs

Howard describes how he has been so busy incorporating new recruits into the company. Not to mention, he keeps getting rejected for furloughs.

Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.

Harvey, Gretchen (donor).

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.

1943-06-06.

Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)

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Correspondence

English

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1943-06-06

Camp Campbell, Kentucky

Correspondence


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 6, 1943
8:30 PM
If you can read this I’ll give you a gold star. [At the top of the first page.]
Hi darling:
I know you must think I’m on a strike but you got to [sic] believe me when I tell you that I’ve been awful busy letely. Do you remember when I told you we just got one more week of training for the recruits? Well to-day [sic] we got two hundred more that just came in the army about three days ago and that means we got to [sic] start all over again and I don’t know when I’ll be able to get a furlough. Well Friday I went to see the company commander and asked him if I could have a furlough and he told me about the recruits that were coming in Sunday

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and told me it would be impossible to give me one just now. I told him that I had been a long time with out [sic] one and he asked me how long. I told him six months and the he said: I’m sorry. So what are you going to do in a case like that? Gee darling I envy you being able to go swimming and everything. I can’t go swimming because there[‘s] no place to swim and even if there was I wouldn’t have time to go. I sure would like to see you’ll [sic] but I guess I’ll have to wait. Darling tell me what you mean when you said sometime I’m going to tell you how much my diamond means to me. I love you so much that when I go to bed at night I go nuts thinking of you and how I can’t get home to see you. Its [sic] isn’t quite so bad during the day because they

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keep me pretty busy and I don’t have much time to think. Darling I wish you knew how much I love you. Darling I love you so much that I don’t care about anything else anymore. Yve do you know that Mike is leaving me. He[‘s] being shipped to another camp in Arkansas. The name of the place is Camp Chaffee. I think I could of [sic] gone there but It’s still farther away from you and I [am] too far away from you now. Darling the weather is so hot down here that it will kill you. To-day [sic] it was 96 degrees in the shade. No telling what it was in the sun but it was hot. Darling don’t ever [illegible deletion] stop loving me because I won’t want to go back if you do. I love you with all my heart and

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always will. I got to go now but I’ll promise I’ll write tomorrow. I love you darling. Love

Howard.

[The following was written as a postscript.]

P.S. Where did you get that (lots of everything) darling?