William Morrow |
William Morrow |
WILLIAM MORROW What happened and when? While going through the Hackensack High School yearbooks in August of 2009, I came across something I had not seen before. William Morrow has his photo in both the 1937 yearbook and 1938 yearbook. My immediate thought was why? Then, I remembered what his brother, Written by Bob Meli, August 2009 |
WORLD WAR II WILLIAM MORROW 1937 H.H.S. LANDING IN NORTH AFRICA – William Morrow was on landing which was lead by Admiral Hewitt H.H.S. graduate 1903 which George Sellarole Jr. 1940 Hackensack High School graduate was involved in as an anti-aircraft gunner. ANZIO BEACH— William Morrow 1937 HHS was involved in the battle of Anzio Beach along with George Sellarole Jr. HHS graduate 1940 who was an antiaircraft gunner during the Anzio Beach campaign and Joseph Mauriello H.H.S. graduate 1934 who received a bronze star during the invasion on Anzio Beach in Italy and is teacher BATTLE OF THE BULGE William Morrow HHS 1937 was also involved with this battle which was one of the most famous battles of World War II. William Morrow was involved with some of the greatest battles of Written by Bob Meli WILLIAM William, the baby of the family, born late in the lives of our parents, escaped much of the heartbreak of the Morrows in Hackensack. Father died before William reached his teens, and he missed the comfort and direction and companionship of his father during these critical years. William had a fantastic academic record in grammar school, reaching the eighth grade at the age of 12. He subsequently suffered a breakdown as a result. However, he did well in high school, and graduated at sixteen. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, William, a sophomore at Rutgers , was among the early draftees called. He suffered through the rigors of the segregated army system in vogue at that time, but made it to Officer Candidate School at the end of his thirteen weeks of basic training. He won his commission and began the long, dangerous trek from the United States , landing in North Africa, and on to the bloody assaults at Anzio Beachhead and the Battle of the Bulge in Europe . He knew all the soul – shattering experiences of combat and the personal pain of seeing his men die, and at twenty - one he was a hard-bitten warrior of the miseries of war. Like his brother Eugene, more than twenty - five years before in World War I, William returned from World War II an uncertain and restless human. He had been through too much to return to the quiet and exacting demands of the campus. He had gone from boy to man in the hectic, searing years of war, and he needed to remain in familiar surroundings to retain his equilibrium and new assurance. So he joined the regular Army. Today, retired from the Army after serving around the world, he is Coordinator of Patient Admissions at the Hackensack Hospital and lives in Teaneck , New Jersey , with his wife and two gifted children. © 1973 Way Down South Up North |