Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 15, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 15, 1943
Subject
WAAC's, Drill Time, Military Life
Description
Howard describes his drill exercise and cleaning the mess hall.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-03-15
Contributor
Will Kuball (transcribing, digitization, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1943-03-15
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 15, 1943
Hi Darling,
What[‘s] cooking? Well here I am again still the same old guy who left his home town to go and fight for his country. It was just a year ago to day [sic] when I went to Worcester to try to join for the first time. Well kid to day [sic] was a big day. We got up at five and had chores then got all dressed up in sunday [sic] clothes (the best we had) and started and [went] to the [illegible deletion] drill field. Well we got to the band stand at about 9 o’clock and had to stand
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at attention for 3 and ½ hrs [hours]. While the funeral let off a lot of steam, then we came back to the barracks and had chores again. It get[s] at times very tiresome to have the same old thing. This will make the second arm’d [armed] division that I’ve seen formed and stood in the field for. Well so much for army life. Did you see the movie (Forever and the Day) [sic] or something like that. If you didint [sic] you ought ought to because I though [sic] it [illegible deletion] was very good but maybe you can’t go very far on my taste. They got a lot of WAAC’s [sic] [Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps] down here now but I don’t think much of them, darling. They went to the P.X. [Post Exchange] the other
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night and a couple of them got drunk and started throwing beer glasses around and one got hurt and went to the hospital and they restricted the rest of them to the barrack. Darling if you ever join the WAAC, I’ll beat you because I would’nd [sic] want you to because it’s not what you would like to do. Darling I miss you like___ [hell?] but I guess I have to wait a little longer. I love you darling but I have to close right now so I [will] see soon any way [sic] with in [sic] two months. Lot of love
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. Please don’t forget about me will you?
March 15, 1943
Hi Darling,
What[‘s] cooking? Well here I am again still the same old guy who left his home town to go and fight for his country. It was just a year ago to day [sic] when I went to Worcester to try to join for the first time. Well kid to day [sic] was a big day. We got up at five and had chores then got all dressed up in sunday [sic] clothes (the best we had) and started and [went] to the [illegible deletion] drill field. Well we got to the band stand at about 9 o’clock and had to stand
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at attention for 3 and ½ hrs [hours]. While the funeral let off a lot of steam, then we came back to the barracks and had chores again. It get[s] at times very tiresome to have the same old thing. This will make the second arm’d [armed] division that I’ve seen formed and stood in the field for. Well so much for army life. Did you see the movie (Forever and the Day) [sic] or something like that. If you didint [sic] you ought ought to because I though [sic] it [illegible deletion] was very good but maybe you can’t go very far on my taste. They got a lot of WAAC’s [sic] [Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps] down here now but I don’t think much of them, darling. They went to the P.X. [Post Exchange] the other
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night and a couple of them got drunk and started throwing beer glasses around and one got hurt and went to the hospital and they restricted the rest of them to the barrack. Darling if you ever join the WAAC, I’ll beat you because I would’nd [sic] want you to because it’s not what you would like to do. Darling I miss you like___ [hell?] but I guess I have to wait a little longer. I love you darling but I have to close right now so I [will] see soon any way [sic] with in [sic] two months. Lot of love
Howard.
[The following was included as a postscript.]
P.S. Please don’t forget about me will you?
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 15, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/746.