Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 14, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 14, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard talks about sending his broken watch back home to get fixed and about his nurse he had in the hospital.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-01-14
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
1943-01-14
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Correspondeces
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Hi [D]arling:
I love you very much and I’m all well new. [T]hat is as far as I know. Well thing[s] are funny down here. I don’t care much for the camp. [I]t [is] all new down here and there [is] not much a guy can do. I can’t get a pass to stay over night [sic] in town so I guess I’ll [be] in camp for quite a long time. I sure miss all the shows. I could
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go to [sic] up to Knox. Gee [H]oney I wish I was back home again so I could go out once in a while [sic] and enjoy my self [sic]. I’m going to send my watch back Sat. I can’t send it before that because I’ll have to go to the post office and that [is] about two or three miles from my barrack. As you see I parked back in the woods miles from nowhere and there
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[is] no women here. You asked me about my nurse and if she was pretty or not. Well she wasn’t to [sic] old but I would never care for that type of woman you know the Rita G. type. Well the boys are raising the devil in here to night [sic] and I can’t even write. [T]hey are trying to
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get me in a free-for-all fight which we have often here. You know what [D]arling I live in Kentucky and work in Tenn. [H]ow is that for covering ground Darling? Will you marry me? I don’t know if I’ll ever get any where [sic] in the army. I’m getting ready to give up. Well [D]arling I love you you very much and I hope you still love me. How would you like married life? Love
Howard
[The following is written on the right side of page 3]
Don’t worry you won’t have a dozen kids or even 3 so don’t worry.
I love you very much and I’m all well new. [T]hat is as far as I know. Well thing[s] are funny down here. I don’t care much for the camp. [I]t [is] all new down here and there [is] not much a guy can do. I can’t get a pass to stay over night [sic] in town so I guess I’ll [be] in camp for quite a long time. I sure miss all the shows. I could
[Page 2]
go to [sic] up to Knox. Gee [H]oney I wish I was back home again so I could go out once in a while [sic] and enjoy my self [sic]. I’m going to send my watch back Sat. I can’t send it before that because I’ll have to go to the post office and that [is] about two or three miles from my barrack. As you see I parked back in the woods miles from nowhere and there
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[is] no women here. You asked me about my nurse and if she was pretty or not. Well she wasn’t to [sic] old but I would never care for that type of woman you know the Rita G. type. Well the boys are raising the devil in here to night [sic] and I can’t even write. [T]hey are trying to
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get me in a free-for-all fight which we have often here. You know what [D]arling I live in Kentucky and work in Tenn. [H]ow is that for covering ground Darling? Will you marry me? I don’t know if I’ll ever get any where [sic] in the army. I’m getting ready to give up. Well [D]arling I love you you very much and I hope you still love me. How would you like married life? Love
Howard
[The following is written on the right side of page 3]
Don’t worry you won’t have a dozen kids or even 3 so don’t worry.
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977), “Letter to Yvette from Howard, January 14, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/725.