Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 24, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 24, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard talks about getting of guard and various chores he has to do.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-02-24
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
1943-02-24
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Correspondences
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Hi [D]earest,
Well I just got off guard and then I had to load some machine gun belts and it is now eight thirty and I [am] going to write you a little note just to tell you how much I love you. Well I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t had much time for anything. How is everything with you? You asked me about the watch and I think I told you in a letter that I wrote that it works perfect. Well How’s the weather up there it’s been colder than [illegible] down here and I’ve been wearing my long underwear. That’s something I never did wear in civilian
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life but the army changes your ways a little in somethings but they never could change my feelings about you no matter how hard they tried. Well [D]arling when are you coming down to see me? I’m getting lonesome down here all alone but it wouldn’t do you any good to come because you couldn’t get a place to stay and you couldn’t come anyway. Well pay day comes pretty soon and I’ll see what I can do for you this time. Well I got [sic] to get shaved and shower because I haven’t been to bed since I got up Tuesday morning at 5:45 and now it [is] about 8:45 Wednesday night. [W]ell goodnight [D]arling and I love you.
Howard
P.S. Do you still love me???
Well I just got off guard and then I had to load some machine gun belts and it is now eight thirty and I [am] going to write you a little note just to tell you how much I love you. Well I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t had much time for anything. How is everything with you? You asked me about the watch and I think I told you in a letter that I wrote that it works perfect. Well How’s the weather up there it’s been colder than [illegible] down here and I’ve been wearing my long underwear. That’s something I never did wear in civilian
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life but the army changes your ways a little in somethings but they never could change my feelings about you no matter how hard they tried. Well [D]arling when are you coming down to see me? I’m getting lonesome down here all alone but it wouldn’t do you any good to come because you couldn’t get a place to stay and you couldn’t come anyway. Well pay day comes pretty soon and I’ll see what I can do for you this time. Well I got [sic] to get shaved and shower because I haven’t been to bed since I got up Tuesday morning at 5:45 and now it [is] about 8:45 Wednesday night. [W]ell goodnight [D]arling and I love you.
Howard
P.S. Do you still love me???
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977) , “Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 24, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/790.