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Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 23, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 23, 1942
My little Darling
I just got back from a road march of 12 miles with light packs an and it was hot. [T]hey marched us right along a river. [W]ell Sunday I spent in Louisville. Our first Sarg. got married and he…
Tags: Hike, Military training, Roller coaster
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 23, 1945
Laufen
June 23, 1945
Hello darling,
Well here it is sunday [sic] again and it [sic] a very beautiful day. I only wish you an[d] I could go and be out on the beach together and enjoy the nice warm sunshine. If I get home before the summer is all…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1942
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…
Tags: Dance, Gold brick, homesick, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 24, 1943
Hi Yve:
Well I [am] alright so far as I know. I’m still five feet ten inches tall, got brown hair and eyes and weigh about 158 striped. I’m not exactly satisfied with the army and I think it’s mostly because…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 24, 1943
Hi Yve:
Well I [am] alright so far as I know. I’m still five feet ten inches tall, got brown hair and eyes and weigh about 158 striped. I’m not exactly satisfied with the army and I think it’s mostly because…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 24, 1945
Laufen
June 24, 1945
My beautiful wife,
Don’t think for one minuit [sic] that I don’t love you. You are on my mind all the time. I got a letter from you to day [sic] where we had the heart to heart talk and I’m really awful sorry. I’m sorry to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
June 25, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got back from double timing for about three miles and am kind of out of wind and I’m telling you it was hot out there. There were eight of us on the run and only four of us finished. You…
Tags: loneliness, Training, weather
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 25, 1945
Laufen
June 25, 1945
12 00. P.M.
My darling Yve.,
I love you so very very much and I do so hope they send me home soon. The latest on going home is that I’ll be home before the first of september [sic] and its [sic] pretty official because we got…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 26, 1945
Laufen
June 26, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
I’m sending you a negative of your no good husband that does nothing but sleep all day long. No kidding darling [Ed. Kaschule?] took that picture on one of those days that I couldn’t stay awake long…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 27, 1942
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…
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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