Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 20, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 20, 1944
Subject
Life in the Barracks
Description
Howard talks about the events that day in the barracks and tells Yvette that he misses her
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-11-20
Contributor
Wibel, Maret (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
Camp Campbell
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Correspondences
Text
Nov. 20, 1944
9:00 PM
Darling,
I love you very much do you know that and its [sic] so hard to be with out [sic] you. I wish this war was over so we could be together and never have to leave each other don’t you? Well you may call me a gold-licker but I got out of going on that bivouac this week. It seems that they needed a truck driver and I happened to be lucky enough to get it and its [sic] a good thing to [sic] because for the last two days it [sic] been raining and it just stoped [sic] now and its [sic] getting kind of cold down here. I went to the show last night with Ray and the picture was Frenchman Creek and it was
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pretty good. The best part of it was they played my song in it you know the one I want you to play for me all the time. Outside of that I haven’t done anything. It seem [sic] awful funny to be in the barracks all alone everybody else is out on [Illegible word] and I’ll be able to sleep in a nice warm bed. But darling its awful lonesome without you. I was never this lonesome before we were married but I’m so glad I married you. Honest darling I’m so much in love with you that I can’t wait to see you and it was lonely 8 day [sic] ago that I left you but it became like a year. I haven’t seen Jack Hanline
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since he came back but I guess he’s alright. From what the boys tell me he spent half of his furlough at home and then came back to Haptown and spent the rest in his little bit of heaven. You know Camp, well he had a little tough luck. You see his baby was supposed to be borned [sic] but even with his five day extention [sic] on his furlough didn’t give him enough time. I don’t know weather [sic] he has heard any thing [sic] yet but he will probably get an emergency furlough when he gets the telegram from his wife. Well darling I love you so much but I got to leave
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now but always remember that I love you and that I’m really glad I married my 97 pound weakling. Love
Howard
[The following is included as a post script]
P.S. I love you and all the fixings
9:00 PM
Darling,
I love you very much do you know that and its [sic] so hard to be with out [sic] you. I wish this war was over so we could be together and never have to leave each other don’t you? Well you may call me a gold-licker but I got out of going on that bivouac this week. It seems that they needed a truck driver and I happened to be lucky enough to get it and its [sic] a good thing to [sic] because for the last two days it [sic] been raining and it just stoped [sic] now and its [sic] getting kind of cold down here. I went to the show last night with Ray and the picture was Frenchman Creek and it was
[Page 2]
pretty good. The best part of it was they played my song in it you know the one I want you to play for me all the time. Outside of that I haven’t done anything. It seem [sic] awful funny to be in the barracks all alone everybody else is out on [Illegible word] and I’ll be able to sleep in a nice warm bed. But darling its awful lonesome without you. I was never this lonesome before we were married but I’m so glad I married you. Honest darling I’m so much in love with you that I can’t wait to see you and it was lonely 8 day [sic] ago that I left you but it became like a year. I haven’t seen Jack Hanline
[Page 3]
since he came back but I guess he’s alright. From what the boys tell me he spent half of his furlough at home and then came back to Haptown and spent the rest in his little bit of heaven. You know Camp, well he had a little tough luck. You see his baby was supposed to be borned [sic] but even with his five day extention [sic] on his furlough didn’t give him enough time. I don’t know weather [sic] he has heard any thing [sic] yet but he will probably get an emergency furlough when he gets the telegram from his wife. Well darling I love you so much but I got to leave
[Page 4]
now but always remember that I love you and that I’m really glad I married my 97 pound weakling. Love
Howard
[The following is included as a post script]
P.S. I love you and all the fixings
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 20, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/726.