Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
Subject
Military Life
Military Training
Description
Howard was on the machine gun range and got a very high score. Yvette thinks he doesn't care for her as much anymore. He can't wait for the war to be over because he doesn't like the life up here.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-06-18
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondence
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1942-06-18_02
Coverage
Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 18, 1942
Yve Darling
I have been pretty busy the last two or three days. I was out on the machine gun range and didn’t get back until the light went out [W]ednsday and [T]hursday. I had a detail until ten o’clock and to night [sic] I am taken [sic] time off to write you. [A]ll the rest of the gang are scrubing [sic] the floors and washing the windows for inspection to-morrow [sic]. And on the firing range I made high score of 110 points out of a possible 120 all the rest was under 100. Well darling I haven’t quite a time we go out early in the
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morning and never get back be fore [sic] night. It[‘]s a hell of a life down here. I don’t like it. I’ll be so glad when this war is over so I can get home and see you. [Y]ou said in your letter that you thought I didn’t care for you any more [sic] but your [sic] wrong. I love you more than ever. I miss you so much that I rather get all the work around here so I won’t think of what i’m missing. I wish you were here but I know that’s impossible but when I get to a nearer camp I want you to come and visit me even if it for one hour, we got to march all day flag day and all day the 4th of July.
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So it would’nt [sic] do you much good to come down when I can’t see you. They tell us that we are going to get a raise in pay. I’ll send you some then. [T]hey the tell you down to by one thing or another and they say it only cost about a few cents but they don’t figure that we ol only get 72 cents a day, ain’t that terrible. [W]ell I guess I have to go now and help the boys wash the floors or they will take me and wash the floors with me. Well darling I still love you and don’t ever forget it.
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I’ll be back one of these days and I better not find you out when I get there. You know what I mean I don’t mind you going out to dances and thing[s] else I won’t like a bit. [Y]ou have me under your little fingers now darling and I love you and I love it. [W]ell so long darling I love you and I know that [illegible deletion] you will love me too. I went and tried to get a 5 day pass but they wouldn’t give it to me. Love
Howard
[The following is written in postscript]
P.S. Tell my mother to send me things to
June 18, 1942
Yve Darling
I have been pretty busy the last two or three days. I was out on the machine gun range and didn’t get back until the light went out [W]ednsday and [T]hursday. I had a detail until ten o’clock and to night [sic] I am taken [sic] time off to write you. [A]ll the rest of the gang are scrubing [sic] the floors and washing the windows for inspection to-morrow [sic]. And on the firing range I made high score of 110 points out of a possible 120 all the rest was under 100. Well darling I haven’t quite a time we go out early in the
[Page 2]
morning and never get back be fore [sic] night. It[‘]s a hell of a life down here. I don’t like it. I’ll be so glad when this war is over so I can get home and see you. [Y]ou said in your letter that you thought I didn’t care for you any more [sic] but your [sic] wrong. I love you more than ever. I miss you so much that I rather get all the work around here so I won’t think of what i’m missing. I wish you were here but I know that’s impossible but when I get to a nearer camp I want you to come and visit me even if it for one hour, we got to march all day flag day and all day the 4th of July.
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So it would’nt [sic] do you much good to come down when I can’t see you. They tell us that we are going to get a raise in pay. I’ll send you some then. [T]hey the tell you down to by one thing or another and they say it only cost about a few cents but they don’t figure that we ol only get 72 cents a day, ain’t that terrible. [W]ell I guess I have to go now and help the boys wash the floors or they will take me and wash the floors with me. Well darling I still love you and don’t ever forget it.
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I’ll be back one of these days and I better not find you out when I get there. You know what I mean I don’t mind you going out to dances and thing[s] else I won’t like a bit. [Y]ou have me under your little fingers now darling and I love you and I love it. [W]ell so long darling I love you and I know that [illegible deletion] you will love me too. I went and tried to get a 5 day pass but they wouldn’t give it to me. Love
Howard
[The following is written in postscript]
P.S. Tell my mother to send me things to
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 28, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/916.