Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 8, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 8, 1943.
Subject
Loneliness, Sleep depravation
Description
Howard recounts how tired he has become after the busy schedule and how much fun he had in Nashville.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-06-08.
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metdata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-06-08
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 8, 1943
Hell darling:
Well here I am again I and I still love you more than ever. It’s a little cooler here to day [sic] and it makes you feel like doing something. I was riding on the bus [hours] [when] I saw three women running down the street to catch it and they were barefooted so I guess what the people say about Kentucky is true. Well darling what[‘]s new back home and when are you coming down to see me? I’m getting so darn lonesome. I don’t know what I’ll do. I guess I[‘ll] go to the show to night [sic]. It will be a change anyway. I got a letter from my sister yesterday and she say’s everything is ok [sic] back in town but I want to see
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for myself. Well to-day [sic] we started to train the new recruits and you know how the dead-end kids act in the movies? [Illegible deletion] Well we got some guys just like them. Gee darling do we have to wait till the war is over till we get married? As for me I don’t want to wait. What do you think? You said something in your letter about Nashville and every thing [sic] you said was true. In fact, all the city down here are [sic] nothing but a hole and the women are insurance crazy if they think your [sic] going over seas [sic] they do any thing [sic] to get you to the justice of the peace to get you [illegible deletion] married then sit back and wait for the telegram [to say?] something like this: so and so killed in action then they go and collect. Darling I love you so much that I can’t sleep hardly. So pray for the war to end. Lot of love
Howard.
June 8, 1943
Hell darling:
Well here I am again I and I still love you more than ever. It’s a little cooler here to day [sic] and it makes you feel like doing something. I was riding on the bus [hours] [when] I saw three women running down the street to catch it and they were barefooted so I guess what the people say about Kentucky is true. Well darling what[‘]s new back home and when are you coming down to see me? I’m getting so darn lonesome. I don’t know what I’ll do. I guess I[‘ll] go to the show to night [sic]. It will be a change anyway. I got a letter from my sister yesterday and she say’s everything is ok [sic] back in town but I want to see
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for myself. Well to-day [sic] we started to train the new recruits and you know how the dead-end kids act in the movies? [Illegible deletion] Well we got some guys just like them. Gee darling do we have to wait till the war is over till we get married? As for me I don’t want to wait. What do you think? You said something in your letter about Nashville and every thing [sic] you said was true. In fact, all the city down here are [sic] nothing but a hole and the women are insurance crazy if they think your [sic] going over seas [sic] they do any thing [sic] to get you to the justice of the peace to get you [illegible deletion] married then sit back and wait for the telegram [to say?] something like this: so and so killed in action then they go and collect. Darling I love you so much that I can’t sleep hardly. So pray for the war to end. Lot of love
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 8, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 5, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1239.