already is at home on Irving Street, in the kitchen, resting on the top shelf of a cabinet on a white piece of paper. It's a poignant poem he wrote called "A Soldier's Letter." He addressed it to his family as he prepared for his first deployment a couple of months ago."He wrote it to us, to his daughter, and he wanted to e-mail it to everybody he loved," Carlene Barrett said.
"It's the only thing we have that the Army doesn't," Paul Barrett said.
from The Fall River Spirit: Remembering a Soldier: City mourns loss of Robert Barrett
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