Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 13, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 13, 1942
Subject
Military Training
Description
Howard talks about the sixteen-mile march he went on, how tired he is lately, and Yvette working too hard.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-11-13
Contributor
Zimny, Sean (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
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Correspondences
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Hi Honey:
Well here it is Friday the thirteenth and all is well so far. I got up this morning at four got read and left for that march at five thirty. They told us yesterday that it would be a sixteen mile round march, but I guess they changed their minds because to-day [sic] we walked twenty-five miles cross country and and I’m just about done. Gee I got another letter from you yesterday and I hope you don’t ever work yourself if you get that school job. You know I still love you even
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though I don’t tell you every other line. Boy am I sleepey [sic] now. I wish I was home [D]arling then we could get married after I get a good job. The captain asked me to-day [sic] if I was going to make the army my career I said (Hell no) and you ought to see the look on his face. I guess he didn’t think I would answer him that way but after a while he asked me why. I told him that if this war hadn’t started I wouldn’t never have been in the army and then he asked me if I was married and I told him I would be if I hadn’t been called. Well that ended our talk. I asked the captain last night if there was any
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chance of me getting a furlough and the answer he gave me was (maybe). If you saw all the boys down here limping around around every one of them have blisters on there [sic] feet. Well [D]arling I guess I’ll have to go and clean my rifle before the light go[es] out. Remember [D]arling I still love you and always will as you know [D]arling you have to have me now. Your loving husband
Howard
Well here it is Friday the thirteenth and all is well so far. I got up this morning at four got read and left for that march at five thirty. They told us yesterday that it would be a sixteen mile round march, but I guess they changed their minds because to-day [sic] we walked twenty-five miles cross country and and I’m just about done. Gee I got another letter from you yesterday and I hope you don’t ever work yourself if you get that school job. You know I still love you even
[Page 2]
though I don’t tell you every other line. Boy am I sleepey [sic] now. I wish I was home [D]arling then we could get married after I get a good job. The captain asked me to-day [sic] if I was going to make the army my career I said (Hell no) and you ought to see the look on his face. I guess he didn’t think I would answer him that way but after a while he asked me why. I told him that if this war hadn’t started I wouldn’t never have been in the army and then he asked me if I was married and I told him I would be if I hadn’t been called. Well that ended our talk. I asked the captain last night if there was any
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chance of me getting a furlough and the answer he gave me was (maybe). If you saw all the boys down here limping around around every one of them have blisters on there [sic] feet. Well [D]arling I guess I’ll have to go and clean my rifle before the light go[es] out. Remember [D]arling I still love you and always will as you know [D]arling you have to have me now. Your loving husband
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977), “Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 13, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/675.