Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 30, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 30, 1943
Subject
Military life
Description
Howard talks about two films he watched and about his friend Karles.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-09-30
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
1943-09-30
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Sept. 30,1943
Hello Darling,
Darling I’ll never doubt your love for me again. You know how I feel sometimes thought when everything go wrong and your [sic] so far away and everything. Well I think nobody cares for me anymore but now I know Gee darling its [sic] to [sic] bad you missed the picture Best Foot Forward because I though[t] it was a good picture. I don’t wish anybody to
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be sick but you do need a little time off once in a while. I just came back from the show and it was fair Sweet Rosie O’Grady. I guess that’s how you spell it, well it wasn’t all it supposed to be and I didn’t think it was too good because I had a head ache [sic] all day and got kind of a bad cold, nothing to worry about though. Well honey we’re all supposed to spend to-
[page 3]
morrow night in the field but I’m going to try to get out of it you know me [illegible deletion] a little gold-bricking here and there never hurt a good soldier. Well Karles is here and his name begins with a (K) and he’s a good guy now and he’s taking good care of me and keeps me on the line. Well I guess I’ll close now and darling [sic] I love you and don’t forget it. Lots of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you.
Sept. 30,1943
Hello Darling,
Darling I’ll never doubt your love for me again. You know how I feel sometimes thought when everything go wrong and your [sic] so far away and everything. Well I think nobody cares for me anymore but now I know Gee darling its [sic] to [sic] bad you missed the picture Best Foot Forward because I though[t] it was a good picture. I don’t wish anybody to
[page 2]
be sick but you do need a little time off once in a while. I just came back from the show and it was fair Sweet Rosie O’Grady. I guess that’s how you spell it, well it wasn’t all it supposed to be and I didn’t think it was too good because I had a head ache [sic] all day and got kind of a bad cold, nothing to worry about though. Well honey we’re all supposed to spend to-
[page 3]
morrow night in the field but I’m going to try to get out of it you know me [illegible deletion] a little gold-bricking here and there never hurt a good soldier. Well Karles is here and his name begins with a (K) and he’s a good guy now and he’s taking good care of me and keeps me on the line. Well I guess I’ll close now and darling [sic] I love you and don’t forget it. Lots of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 30, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/816.