Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 20, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 20, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard tells Yvette about a letter he received from home and a soldier who went AWOL.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-09-20
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (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
1943-09-20
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
Document Item Type Metadata
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Sept. 20, 1943
Yve Honey,
How are you today? Well I got your letter and darling don’t work to [sic] hard because you know what it does to you and besides I don’t want you to lose any weight. Well it decided to turn cold down here and I guess I go into winter uniforms pretty soon infact [sic] I wore mine Sunday and it felt good to, because it rained all day.
[page 2]
Well darling [sic] I got a letter from home and now they say everything’s ok [sic] I feel a little better. Phil wrote and told me his troubles to [sic]. You know what darling its [sic] to [sic] bad that Bob wasn’t home when I was so I could salute him then you could see how its [sic] done and darling I never did tell you you could go riding with married men because some of them
[page 3]
are worse than the single ones. One of the Sgt. from Camp Campbell was shot on account of being out with somebody else’s wife only he got caught. Well darling there isn’t much else doing down here except all the rookies are going home on furlough which I wish I was going with them. Oh I forgot to tell you about the guy that was in our company. Well he went AWOL a year ago last [J]une and
[page 4]
they just caught him. I don’t know yet what he’ll get out of it but you can be it won’t be less than ten years. Well darling [sic] I’ll say good night [sic] for now and please darling [sic] keep loving me always because I love you so much and if I thought you didn’t love me, well hate to tell you. I love you so much and please wait Love
Howard
[the following is included as a post script]
I still Love you
Sept. 20, 1943
Yve Honey,
How are you today? Well I got your letter and darling don’t work to [sic] hard because you know what it does to you and besides I don’t want you to lose any weight. Well it decided to turn cold down here and I guess I go into winter uniforms pretty soon infact [sic] I wore mine Sunday and it felt good to, because it rained all day.
[page 2]
Well darling [sic] I got a letter from home and now they say everything’s ok [sic] I feel a little better. Phil wrote and told me his troubles to [sic]. You know what darling its [sic] to [sic] bad that Bob wasn’t home when I was so I could salute him then you could see how its [sic] done and darling I never did tell you you could go riding with married men because some of them
[page 3]
are worse than the single ones. One of the Sgt. from Camp Campbell was shot on account of being out with somebody else’s wife only he got caught. Well darling there isn’t much else doing down here except all the rookies are going home on furlough which I wish I was going with them. Oh I forgot to tell you about the guy that was in our company. Well he went AWOL a year ago last [J]une and
[page 4]
they just caught him. I don’t know yet what he’ll get out of it but you can be it won’t be less than ten years. Well darling [sic] I’ll say good night [sic] for now and please darling [sic] keep loving me always because I love you so much and if I thought you didn’t love me, well hate to tell you. I love you so much and please wait Love
Howard
[the following is included as a post script]
I still Love you
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 20, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/811.