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Feb 9, 1970
Dear Paul,
...When you have bullets cracking right over your head for a couple days in a row, your nerves begin to fizzle. When you're getting shot at, all you can think about is -- try to stay alive, keep your head down and keep shooting back. When the shooting stops, though, you sort of sit back and ask yourself Why? What the hell is this going to prove? And man, I'm still looking for the answer. It's a real bitch...
Your brother,
Joe
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Joseph A. Morrissey Joseph A. Morrissey, a staff sergeant with Company C, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), served in III Corps from July 1969-May 1970. After returning to his home in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, he ran his own small company building passive solar homes for nearly two decades. In the mid-90s, he “decided on a change of career and began working in the field of child abuse,” he writes. “I’m currently a supervisor with the Department of Children, Youth and Families in Chester County, Pennsylvania. I have an absolutely wonderful wife, Mary, and three beautiful daughters, Sarah, Jessie and Erin. We live in a home I built in Parkesburg, and I try to remind myself every day how precious every moment is.”
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