Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 19, 1943 [EXAMPLE]
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 19, 1943 [EXAMPLE]
Subject
Military life
Description
Howard recounts the events of one of his days at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. The letter describes his meals and interactions with other military personnel. He also discusses furlough.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-04-19
Contributor
Lintelman, Joy L. (transcriber)
Sjoberg, Lisa M. (metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-04-19
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Correspondences
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Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 19, 1943
Hello darling:
Hows [sic] everything back home? As for me I think I’m going nuts. I got up this morning at four and had chow at four-thirty then I started my work for the day. That was allright [sic] until about ten-thirty when I had to go up to division Headquarters for some information, well I got almost all the way back when on of those crazy wacc. [WAAC Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps] was driving around in a peep and nearly run over me. Well after that I went and had me a fine dinner a nice big steak with everything to go with it. Well this afternoon
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I had to start out early to go and check over some shipping tickets on some new trucks that we just got in, that took all afternoon and so I ate again at five thirty to night [sic] I had to clean up my office and then do a little home work [sic] which I couldn’t do this afternoon because I was out well I just finished that work at nine o’clock and then I fell asleep. My buddy mike [sic] woke me up and told me that first call was at four AM to morrow so I’d know what time to set the clock at. and it’s a good thing that he woke me up because I wanted to drop you a couple of lines.
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As you know I haven’t been writing every day. darling it isn’t because I don’t love you it [sic] because every day there seem to be more and more work to do and I never seem to get caught up. I had a funny thing happen to day [sic] I was sitting at the desk doing some work when all of a sudden I stoped [sic] writing and I looked straight ahead I was like that for about five minutes when the Lt. Colin came in and said to me what are you thinking about and all the time I was just sitting in a daze thinking of you so I told him and he said well I don’t blame you for think [sic] of the girl back home. Then I said to
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him I guess I need a furlough so I can rest up. the army must be working me too hard but he said you would be worse off when you got back. oh well I guess I turn in now and get some sleep. by the way I sent you a pillow case [sic] from camp campbell [sic] so you could have something from this post Darling I love you and I can hardly keep my eyes open good night darling and keep loving me even if I do feel like a heel some time for not writing. Lots of love
Howard
April 19, 1943
Hello darling:
Hows [sic] everything back home? As for me I think I’m going nuts. I got up this morning at four and had chow at four-thirty then I started my work for the day. That was allright [sic] until about ten-thirty when I had to go up to division Headquarters for some information, well I got almost all the way back when on of those crazy wacc. [WAAC Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps] was driving around in a peep and nearly run over me. Well after that I went and had me a fine dinner a nice big steak with everything to go with it. Well this afternoon
[Page 2]
I had to start out early to go and check over some shipping tickets on some new trucks that we just got in, that took all afternoon and so I ate again at five thirty to night [sic] I had to clean up my office and then do a little home work [sic] which I couldn’t do this afternoon because I was out well I just finished that work at nine o’clock and then I fell asleep. My buddy mike [sic] woke me up and told me that first call was at four AM to morrow so I’d know what time to set the clock at. and it’s a good thing that he woke me up because I wanted to drop you a couple of lines.
[Page 3]
As you know I haven’t been writing every day. darling it isn’t because I don’t love you it [sic] because every day there seem to be more and more work to do and I never seem to get caught up. I had a funny thing happen to day [sic] I was sitting at the desk doing some work when all of a sudden I stoped [sic] writing and I looked straight ahead I was like that for about five minutes when the Lt. Colin came in and said to me what are you thinking about and all the time I was just sitting in a daze thinking of you so I told him and he said well I don’t blame you for think [sic] of the girl back home. Then I said to
[Page 4]
him I guess I need a furlough so I can rest up. the army must be working me too hard but he said you would be worse off when you got back. oh well I guess I turn in now and get some sleep. by the way I sent you a pillow case [sic] from camp campbell [sic] so you could have something from this post Darling I love you and I can hardly keep my eyes open good night darling and keep loving me even if I do feel like a heel some time for not writing. Lots of love
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, April 19, 1943 [EXAMPLE],” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 25, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/647.