Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 27, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 27, 1942
Subject
Military life
Military training
Description
Howard says after his training is done he will be moved to a different camp. Some say after 6 months they will be overseas. It looks to Howard as if the war is going to be long.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-06-27
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon ( digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1942-06-27
Coverage
Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 27, 1942
Darling Yve
I been so busy lately I haven’t had time to write and to-morrow [sic] I got to work K.P. I just had it [F]riday and it was awful hot. Well i just got your brownies to-day [sic] and they were swell. I miss you a lot. I got a letter from Lil yesterday and she told me that something that you said was important and I wish them all the luck. I wish we had that much don’t you[?] i will be working in the kitchen all day Sunday why you give
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your recital. I hope every body [sic] likes it. I’ll keeping fingers crossed. I’ve been getting your letters every day and I like feel like a heal for not answering them but I have’nt [sic] had time. I wish I was home. [T]hey say a fellow in the army has Sundays off well they don’t down in this company. Next Saturday i will have to pull gard [sic] duties from Sat. at 5:00 to Sunday afternoon at 5:00. Its [sic] a great life huh[?] Out side [sic] of all the work this life is swell. Yve I miss you more and more every day. [L]ast night I had a dream about you and it was the [illegble deltion] best [illegible deletion] dream I ever had
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I hope it will come true. I don’t know just how long I am going to stay down here. The Sarg. said that we would leave this camp as [illegible deletion] soon as our 13 weeks of training is over. I hope so any ways [sic]. I would like to go a little nearer home so I could see you once in a while [sic]. It look as if the war is going to last quite a while but you never can tell. I hope not anyway. I want to go home and settle down with you for my wife. Some say we will go across within six months I hope there [sic] all wrong.
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[W]ell darling I love you more than ever and I will be home some of these days. Well wifey I love you and when you don’t get a letter from me know it isn’t because I don’t want to write. I love you and keep loving me because I will be back and we can make up for lost time. Well darling I got to go now so for the time being good night. Yours for ever[sic]
Howard
[The following was written in postscript]
The brownies were swell thanks a lot.
[“I love you” was written on the top of the first page.]
June 27, 1942
Darling Yve
I been so busy lately I haven’t had time to write and to-morrow [sic] I got to work K.P. I just had it [F]riday and it was awful hot. Well i just got your brownies to-day [sic] and they were swell. I miss you a lot. I got a letter from Lil yesterday and she told me that something that you said was important and I wish them all the luck. I wish we had that much don’t you[?] i will be working in the kitchen all day Sunday why you give
[Page 2]
your recital. I hope every body [sic] likes it. I’ll keeping fingers crossed. I’ve been getting your letters every day and I like feel like a heal for not answering them but I have’nt [sic] had time. I wish I was home. [T]hey say a fellow in the army has Sundays off well they don’t down in this company. Next Saturday i will have to pull gard [sic] duties from Sat. at 5:00 to Sunday afternoon at 5:00. Its [sic] a great life huh[?] Out side [sic] of all the work this life is swell. Yve I miss you more and more every day. [L]ast night I had a dream about you and it was the [illegble deltion] best [illegible deletion] dream I ever had
[Page 3]
I hope it will come true. I don’t know just how long I am going to stay down here. The Sarg. said that we would leave this camp as [illegible deletion] soon as our 13 weeks of training is over. I hope so any ways [sic]. I would like to go a little nearer home so I could see you once in a while [sic]. It look as if the war is going to last quite a while but you never can tell. I hope not anyway. I want to go home and settle down with you for my wife. Some say we will go across within six months I hope there [sic] all wrong.
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[W]ell darling I love you more than ever and I will be home some of these days. Well wifey I love you and when you don’t get a letter from me know it isn’t because I don’t want to write. I love you and keep loving me because I will be back and we can make up for lost time. Well darling I got to go now so for the time being good night. Yours for ever[sic]
Howard
[The following was written in postscript]
The brownies were swell thanks a lot.
[“I love you” was written on the top of the first page.]
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 27, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 27, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/928.