Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 1, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 1, 1945
Description
Howard talks about guard duty, mentions that it’s almost his and Yvette’s one-year marriage anniversary, and updates Yvette on small bits of news around camp.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-06-01
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (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
1945-06-01
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Correspondences
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Laufen
June 1, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
You know I love you more every day even if you are a little half pint. It was a beautiful day to-day [sic] and I feel wonderful. There’s only one thing missing and thats [sic] having you with me. You seem to understand me better than anyone I know. Well darling to-day [sic] was the same old thing. I stood guard at the bridge for six hours and had my little six year old gal over begging for candy as always but nothing else happened. This afternoon
[Page 2]
I took a ride out to the company and did a little work (for a change) but it didn’t kill me so here I am. Darling whats [sic] new with you? Do you still miss me so much as ever or a little more? Gosh darling I miss you something terrible. I wish I knew just how much of this war I’ll have to take part in. I can’t even plan to the next day as it is. Gee do you know in twelve more days it will be a year we we’re [sic] married I wish I could be home for that but I know that its [sic] impossible but I can dream can’t I?
[Page 3]
Well darling all the boys are ok, Tony has his trouble and [Red Camp?] is having another baby (I mean his wife is). Thats [sic] about all except you can still send packages because I’m still hungry in the morning when I get up. I’m getting a bad habit darling I’ve been eating crackers in bed. see [sic] what you got to put up with I stay much longer who knows what will happen next. You can be sure darling that it won’t be nothing really bad thou [sic] because I love you too much. I love you so darn much darling
[Page 4]
I just can’t get along without you. I want you, need you and love you so much its [sic] driving me nuts. Well darling I got to go now but you’ll hear from me soon. Write soon and send some more packages I love you darling more than you’ll ever know. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you more
June 1, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
You know I love you more every day even if you are a little half pint. It was a beautiful day to-day [sic] and I feel wonderful. There’s only one thing missing and thats [sic] having you with me. You seem to understand me better than anyone I know. Well darling to-day [sic] was the same old thing. I stood guard at the bridge for six hours and had my little six year old gal over begging for candy as always but nothing else happened. This afternoon
[Page 2]
I took a ride out to the company and did a little work (for a change) but it didn’t kill me so here I am. Darling whats [sic] new with you? Do you still miss me so much as ever or a little more? Gosh darling I miss you something terrible. I wish I knew just how much of this war I’ll have to take part in. I can’t even plan to the next day as it is. Gee do you know in twelve more days it will be a year we we’re [sic] married I wish I could be home for that but I know that its [sic] impossible but I can dream can’t I?
[Page 3]
Well darling all the boys are ok, Tony has his trouble and [Red Camp?] is having another baby (I mean his wife is). Thats [sic] about all except you can still send packages because I’m still hungry in the morning when I get up. I’m getting a bad habit darling I’ve been eating crackers in bed. see [sic] what you got to put up with I stay much longer who knows what will happen next. You can be sure darling that it won’t be nothing really bad thou [sic] because I love you too much. I love you so darn much darling
[Page 4]
I just can’t get along without you. I want you, need you and love you so much its [sic] driving me nuts. Well darling I got to go now but you’ll hear from me soon. Write soon and send some more packages I love you darling more than you’ll ever know. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you more
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 1, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/992.