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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, March 21, 1945
March 21, 1945
France
Dearest Yve,
Well here I am again. I haven’t written for the last few days because I had a chance to visit Paris and what I’ve heard of the french women around there I’ll believe the worse [sic]. But as for the city of Paris…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 16, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 16, 1943
Hi darling:
How’s the world treating you? If it[‘]s not treating you alright let me know and I [will] fix it. No kidding darling I sure miss you like the devil. I wish this curse word war was over. Well I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 15, 1945
March 15, 1945
Thrusday-nite
Dear Yve,
I was going to ask you to send the weidemanns [sic] offspring something but you beat me to it but as for Jimmy + Georges its [sic] as you say we may never see them again and a card would do. You didn’t tell…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 15, 1943: WAAC Section
Darling if you ever join the Waac I'll beat you because I wouldn't want you to because it's not what you would like to do.
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 15, 1943
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 15, 1943
Hi Darling,
What[‘s] cooking? Well here I am again still the same old guy who left his home town to go and fight for his country. It was just a year ago to day [sic] when I went to Worcester to try to join…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1945
March 14, 1945
Wed-night,
Dearest darling wife + no kids
Well here it is another day and I got three letters from you to day [sic] dated the 14th, 15th, and 16th. I got that snap shot that Pauline took of you and I think its [sic] good so I’ll…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 14, 1943
Hi [D]arling
Well here I am again, just a little boy who can’t forget that he’s got the most beautiful girl in the world back in [S]outhbridge waiting for him till the war is ended. Darling I sure love you, why today I went to town and I missed you…
Tags: Homesickness
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1945
March, 13, 1945
Tuesday
Dear Yvette,
You must of thought I got lost wounded or something because I didn’t write, but it wasn’t that bad. I guess you’d classify it as plain lazy-ness [sic]. Well here it is the thirteenth and you know what that…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 13, 1943
Dear Yve
How is every little thing with you tonight? I haven’t written to you for the last two days because I was working to [sic] a hours out on the range, but today I got off a little easy instead of doing a lot of work on the range I had to take…
Tags: duty, Homesickness
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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