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Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 25, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 25, 1943
Dear Yvette;
I just got another letter from you to-day [sic] and yes darling I can read that french that you wrote and I love you to [sic]. Darling I don’t think I’ll send you any money this pay day because…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 23, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 23, 1943
Darling:
Well here I am. All alone in the commanding officer’s office working out my change of quarters, (CQ), in army language. Well to-morrow [sic] the company has off that means no duties but I’ll have to…
Tags: loneliness, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, March 22, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 22, 1943
Hi Eve.
I feel good to-day [sic]. I just got three letters from you. One dated the 17th, one the 18th, and the other one the 19th. So you see that there’s a hold up [sic] in the mail somewhere between here…
Tags: duty, sleep depravation
Letter to Yvette from Howard Sarty, March 18, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 18, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got the letter that you wrote the 15[th] of this month and I still love you. Well it[‘]s raining like the Devil to-day [sic] and I got wet twice. Well I’m quarantine[d] with the measles…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 30, 1945
Sept. 30, 1945
Sunday
Dearest darling Yve.,
Well here I am back from my three days in the wilds of hollywood [sic]. I had a very good time but it was so lonely without you. Everything would of [sic] been perfect if you were here but you were’nt…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 27, 1945
[The following is written on USO stationary. At the top of the front side of each page, there is a picture of a waving flag emblazoned with “U S O”. Along the bottom of the front of each page is typed the names of various organizations followed by “U…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 26, 1945
Sept. 26, 1945
8:30 P.M.
Darling Yve.,
Just another day and I miss you so very much that I’ll never know what it’ll be like to be lonely when I get out of this army. Its [sic] worse than being over in France because when I was over there I knew I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 25, 1945
Sept. 25, 1945
Tuesday
Dearest Yve.,
Well another day gone by and it gets worse all the time. I got your telegram and I want you to come so bad but it [sic] no use I can’t find a place anywhere. Its [sic] really terrible out here. People around…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 24, 1945
Sept. 24, 1945
Monday
My darling Yve.,
Gee I love you I love you I love you. That’s [sic] all I can think of to say. I want you and I need you so very much I don’t know how I even got along with out you before we we’re [sic] married and gee I so…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 23, 1945
Sept 23 1945
7:00 P.M.
Dearest darling Yve.
Well its [sic] me again and darling I still want to go home. They can keep sunny Calif. if they want it but give me Southbridge. I saw Santa Barbara yesterday and its [sic] bigger than [Hopkinville?] but…
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910