Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1943.
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1943.
Subject
Furloughs, Homesickness
Description
Howard describes his plans for he and Yve when they marry and how much he wants to see her on a furlough.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977.
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor).
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives.
Date
1943-07-05
Contributor
Will Kuball (digitization, metadata, transcription)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-07-05
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Original Format
Correspondence
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 5, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Well to-day [sic] was hot too but I feel better after a nice cold shower and not the kind that you get when you get married. I was out on the range all day today and wasted a lot of bullets that we could of used on the Japs [slang for “Japanese”]. Gee I wish I was over there so this war would end but may be [sic] I wouldn’t do much good. Well darling I wonder if you would be interested to know I love you and will you marry me? Gee I hope so because I’m getting so I can’t sleep [at] night and when I do get to sleep I dream of you all the time. I guess I must be in love. You know darling when this war is over I’m never going to leave you
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again and darling I’m never going to go to Kentucky again either except when we’re married we will go to the Kentucky Derby. Darling what’s new back home? How are your mother, father, sister, brother and brother in law to be? Has he been home on furlough yet? I was supprised [sic] to hear about Norman and Vi. I thought that he would never do it but I guess the little man with the bow and arrow really gets around. How is [sic] Lil and Stan making out and all that kind of news? Well darling I don’t know nothing [sic] to write about so just keep loving me and wait, this war can’t last forever. Love you
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you more than you’ll ever know.
July 5, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Well to-day [sic] was hot too but I feel better after a nice cold shower and not the kind that you get when you get married. I was out on the range all day today and wasted a lot of bullets that we could of used on the Japs [slang for “Japanese”]. Gee I wish I was over there so this war would end but may be [sic] I wouldn’t do much good. Well darling I wonder if you would be interested to know I love you and will you marry me? Gee I hope so because I’m getting so I can’t sleep [at] night and when I do get to sleep I dream of you all the time. I guess I must be in love. You know darling when this war is over I’m never going to leave you
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again and darling I’m never going to go to Kentucky again either except when we’re married we will go to the Kentucky Derby. Darling what’s new back home? How are your mother, father, sister, brother and brother in law to be? Has he been home on furlough yet? I was supprised [sic] to hear about Norman and Vi. I thought that he would never do it but I guess the little man with the bow and arrow really gets around. How is [sic] Lil and Stan making out and all that kind of news? Well darling I don’t know nothing [sic] to write about so just keep loving me and wait, this war can’t last forever. Love you
Howard.
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you more than you’ll ever know.
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977., “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1943.,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 28, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1252.