Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 6, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 6, 1943
Subject
Duty, Training
Description
Howard talks about his busy week and a man named Farland.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-03-06
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
1943-03-06
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Correspondences
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Hello [D]arling
Well here I am again. This is the first time this week that I had time to write to you. You see I’ve been very busy this week. I’ve been out in the range teaching the rifle and telling the fellows how to fire it and I wouldn't get back to the company until seven o’clock and then I’ll have to clean my gun and then I would have to clean my equipment. Well to give you an example I’ll tell you what I did yesterday. We got up at five o’clock in the morning, cleaned the barracks, and had chow at five thirty. We start out to this range at six o’clock and start our days work at the firing line, sometimes we eat again at noon and sometimes we won’t until two or three o’clock in the afternoon. Then about six
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o’clock at night we start back and I’ve already told you what we do after that. Yve it’s a tough life but not as tough as some of the boys that are over seas. Well [D]arling to-morrow [sic] night. I get to go on guard so I won’t have much time to write a fellow from Southbridge to day [sic] but I can’t remember his name. I was out there to day [sic] and he came up to the line to fire and he looked at me and said, “Are you from Southbridge?” and I said yes and he said, “I used to see you down by the A.Q. a lot because I live down that way.” Oh yes his name is Farland or something like that.
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I never knew his name before but I’ve seen him when I used to go to work. Well the weather’s been lousy all week. Mon. it was 10° below. Tues. it snow[ed]. Wed. it rained. Thurs. it was cold and windy. Fri. it was raining and Sat. it was cold again, and I got a little cold out of it. Well so much about me. How are you? You know I love you very much and that I never want to go away from you again after this war is over it its [sic] ever ends. Gee [D]arling I miss you more than you’ll ever know. When shall we get married? I’m getting sick of this single life anyway and I’ll try to be a better husband than I am a
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soldier. Well I guess it’s pretty near time to close now but I do love you [D]arling and I hope I get a furlough again pretty soon. I’m going to try to contact my brother Bill he’s down in Tenn. on maneuvers that if I can get a pass for a weekend. Gee I’m lonesome but I’ve got a picture of you anyway. I love you. I love you, love you, love you. Well this time I nearly have to go be sure to look at my new address. [T]here is a slight change. I love you
Howard
P.S. I get a letter about every day now and I feel kind of guilty for not answering. them but I can’t help it.
Well here I am again. This is the first time this week that I had time to write to you. You see I’ve been very busy this week. I’ve been out in the range teaching the rifle and telling the fellows how to fire it and I wouldn't get back to the company until seven o’clock and then I’ll have to clean my gun and then I would have to clean my equipment. Well to give you an example I’ll tell you what I did yesterday. We got up at five o’clock in the morning, cleaned the barracks, and had chow at five thirty. We start out to this range at six o’clock and start our days work at the firing line, sometimes we eat again at noon and sometimes we won’t until two or three o’clock in the afternoon. Then about six
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o’clock at night we start back and I’ve already told you what we do after that. Yve it’s a tough life but not as tough as some of the boys that are over seas. Well [D]arling to-morrow [sic] night. I get to go on guard so I won’t have much time to write a fellow from Southbridge to day [sic] but I can’t remember his name. I was out there to day [sic] and he came up to the line to fire and he looked at me and said, “Are you from Southbridge?” and I said yes and he said, “I used to see you down by the A.Q. a lot because I live down that way.” Oh yes his name is Farland or something like that.
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I never knew his name before but I’ve seen him when I used to go to work. Well the weather’s been lousy all week. Mon. it was 10° below. Tues. it snow[ed]. Wed. it rained. Thurs. it was cold and windy. Fri. it was raining and Sat. it was cold again, and I got a little cold out of it. Well so much about me. How are you? You know I love you very much and that I never want to go away from you again after this war is over it its [sic] ever ends. Gee [D]arling I miss you more than you’ll ever know. When shall we get married? I’m getting sick of this single life anyway and I’ll try to be a better husband than I am a
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soldier. Well I guess it’s pretty near time to close now but I do love you [D]arling and I hope I get a furlough again pretty soon. I’m going to try to contact my brother Bill he’s down in Tenn. on maneuvers that if I can get a pass for a weekend. Gee I’m lonesome but I’ve got a picture of you anyway. I love you. I love you, love you, love you. Well this time I nearly have to go be sure to look at my new address. [T]here is a slight change. I love you
Howard
P.S. I get a letter about every day now and I feel kind of guilty for not answering. them but I can’t help it.
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977) , “Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 6, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 3, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/792.