Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1942
Subject
Military life
Description
Howard is getting very homesick.He got kind of angry when he heard Yve went to a dance.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-06-24
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1942-06-23
Coverage
Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Correspondences
Text
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 24, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am getting auful [sic] home sick. Every time I get a letter from you I feel more sick but I feel bad if I don’t get one. Well we got speaches [sic] every other day on the war from capatin captains that’s got the real dope. Well darling I hope you feel allwrite [sic] now but I got a little mad when you said you went to the dance. [B]ut of course I want you to go. I only wish I was with you. Do you still
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love you me darling[?] I love you anyway. They keep telling us down here that it won’t be long before we go across the water but I think there [sic] wrong I hope so anyways. [W]ell darling about 40 guys left for other camps to-day [sic]. I wish I was going and with them. I am sending you about two more pictures of me and see what you think of them. [L]et me know any how [sic]. I am writing this letter with about 8 fellows talking to me and don’t blame me if I make mistakes. [W]ell thats [sic] about all
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so till to morrow [sic] I love you more every day and if you only know how much I miss you. [A]lway[s] your little Pvt. love
Howard
[The following is written in Postscript]
P.S. I’m Hungry. I’m Hungry. I’m Crazy. I’m Nuts. I’m a gold brick. In the army a gold brick is a guy who likes to get out of work and it.
June 24, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am getting auful [sic] home sick. Every time I get a letter from you I feel more sick but I feel bad if I don’t get one. Well we got speaches [sic] every other day on the war from capatin captains that’s got the real dope. Well darling I hope you feel allwrite [sic] now but I got a little mad when you said you went to the dance. [B]ut of course I want you to go. I only wish I was with you. Do you still
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love you me darling[?] I love you anyway. They keep telling us down here that it won’t be long before we go across the water but I think there [sic] wrong I hope so anyways. [W]ell darling about 40 guys left for other camps to-day [sic]. I wish I was going and with them. I am sending you about two more pictures of me and see what you think of them. [L]et me know any how [sic]. I am writing this letter with about 8 fellows talking to me and don’t blame me if I make mistakes. [W]ell thats [sic] about all
[Page 3]
so till to morrow [sic] I love you more every day and if you only know how much I miss you. [A]lway[s] your little Pvt. love
Howard
[The following is written in Postscript]
P.S. I’m Hungry. I’m Hungry. I’m Crazy. I’m Nuts. I’m a gold brick. In the army a gold brick is a guy who likes to get out of work and it.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 28, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/927.