Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 24, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 24, 1945
Description
Howard doesn't know what to do with himself anymore. All he does is read, see movies, and go to the diner. He just really wants to come home.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-10-24
Contributor
Huebner, John (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
1945-10-24
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Correspondences
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Oct. 24, 1945
Wednesday.
Dear Mummy,
I got you two letters to day [sic] and they were both perfect except where did you get that paper? It’s really different and I love you so very much that it’s hard to just stay around here and wait. About my size in a shirt instead of 15 ½ make it a 14 ½. I’m not that big around the neck. I guess Jon was a pretty good engineer after all wasn’t he? You see even an officer can’t always find a place for his wife to stay and if they can’t how can
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I? I don’t know darling what to do anymore all I do is go to the show read and drink malted milk at the P.X. There’s a good show so I guess I’ll see it. The name is The Last Weekend and is supposed to be the best of the year. Saturday we’re going to have to go in a parade in L.A. and nobody wants to go and I don’t blame them too much. If everybody disliked the army as much as I do they wouldn’t have a soldier in the U.S. and I mean it. I’m just about fed up with this kind of
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life living like a tramp and the worst of it is the war is over and I want to go home and I got to wait for my turn which takes too long. Gee darling I miss you, want you and love you so much that I just can’t seem to want anything or do anything any more. I guess I’ve done my share of complaining for to day [sic] so I’ll wait intil [sic] to morrow [sic] for the rest. I love you Yve and I mean it and I’m so glad that we got married and you and I will always get along swell. I love you so very very much. Your worst half.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more
Wednesday.
Dear Mummy,
I got you two letters to day [sic] and they were both perfect except where did you get that paper? It’s really different and I love you so very much that it’s hard to just stay around here and wait. About my size in a shirt instead of 15 ½ make it a 14 ½. I’m not that big around the neck. I guess Jon was a pretty good engineer after all wasn’t he? You see even an officer can’t always find a place for his wife to stay and if they can’t how can
[Page 2]
I? I don’t know darling what to do anymore all I do is go to the show read and drink malted milk at the P.X. There’s a good show so I guess I’ll see it. The name is The Last Weekend and is supposed to be the best of the year. Saturday we’re going to have to go in a parade in L.A. and nobody wants to go and I don’t blame them too much. If everybody disliked the army as much as I do they wouldn’t have a soldier in the U.S. and I mean it. I’m just about fed up with this kind of
[Page 3]
life living like a tramp and the worst of it is the war is over and I want to go home and I got to wait for my turn which takes too long. Gee darling I miss you, want you and love you so much that I just can’t seem to want anything or do anything any more. I guess I’ve done my share of complaining for to day [sic] so I’ll wait intil [sic] to morrow [sic] for the rest. I love you Yve and I mean it and I’m so glad that we got married and you and I will always get along swell. I love you so very very much. Your worst half.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 24, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 2, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/849.