June 27, 2021
Joes wartime heritage also includes a "Greatest Generation" soldier, Uncle Meryl Kelley, buried at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell. And Joes bride of 51 years, Barbara, is herself the daughter of an Army NCO who was posted to Puerto Rico. When likely draftee Elliott was weighing his options in the seminal year of 1969, he had done his homework. "Simply," he said, "the Army offered me the best deal: telephone switchboard repairman." Joes six-year, eclectic adventure in olive drab h...