Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 11, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 11, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard talks about all the mail he has now received and asks Yvette when she will marry him.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-01-11
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
Identifier
1943-01-11
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Correspondences
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Hi Kid:
How is everything with you to-day [sic]. Well they are letting me out to-morrow [sic]. [D]on’t you think that [is] nice. I told them its [sic] about time. I told them I’d like to see what kind of a camp that I got to live in. I got out of bed to-day [sic] and went to the P.X. that they have in the hospital and gee it seems good to be able to walk around and another thing they make me get up now and get my own meals they won’t serve me in bed any more [sic]. Gee [D]arling I bet I got a lot
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of mail because I haven’t had any brought over here and I got my last letter about ten days ago. They told me that I might be able to go to the show to-night [sic] so if I can I’m doing anything to stay out of bed for a while. Darling I haven’t heard from any one of the boys from the barracks since I got here but they are most likely so busy that they haven’t [sic] time to come. Well Yve do you still want to marry an [illegible] or do you want a man? You haven’t changed your mind yet have you? Will you marry me? Gee the last ten days have been long ones and mostly because I haven’t heard from
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you or anyone back home. Darling you better make up your mind pretty soon because the war is going to be over pretty soon and you will either have to say yes or no. Yve you know down here they are all hillbillys [sic] and they do funny thing[s]. We got a man that sleeps next bed and he [is] about forty-five and he was showing me a picture of his wife and he said she just turned sixteen and they live in
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[a] log hut up in the hills about fifteen miles. He was telling me all about the still he had and how the F.B.I. closed it down last year. Well I guess that’s about all I can think of now so I guess I’ll close. Lots of love
Howard
How is everything with you to-day [sic]. Well they are letting me out to-morrow [sic]. [D]on’t you think that [is] nice. I told them its [sic] about time. I told them I’d like to see what kind of a camp that I got to live in. I got out of bed to-day [sic] and went to the P.X. that they have in the hospital and gee it seems good to be able to walk around and another thing they make me get up now and get my own meals they won’t serve me in bed any more [sic]. Gee [D]arling I bet I got a lot
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of mail because I haven’t had any brought over here and I got my last letter about ten days ago. They told me that I might be able to go to the show to-night [sic] so if I can I’m doing anything to stay out of bed for a while. Darling I haven’t heard from any one of the boys from the barracks since I got here but they are most likely so busy that they haven’t [sic] time to come. Well Yve do you still want to marry an [illegible] or do you want a man? You haven’t changed your mind yet have you? Will you marry me? Gee the last ten days have been long ones and mostly because I haven’t heard from
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you or anyone back home. Darling you better make up your mind pretty soon because the war is going to be over pretty soon and you will either have to say yes or no. Yve you know down here they are all hillbillys [sic] and they do funny thing[s]. We got a man that sleeps next bed and he [is] about forty-five and he was showing me a picture of his wife and he said she just turned sixteen and they live in
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[a] log hut up in the hills about fifteen miles. He was telling me all about the still he had and how the F.B.I. closed it down last year. Well I guess that’s about all I can think of now so I guess I’ll close. Lots of love
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977), “Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 11, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/722.