There I Was: the War of Corporal Henry J Morris, USMC (ISBN 0-8041-0498-0) is a Vietnam War novel by David Sherman published in 1989 by the Ivy Book imprint of Ballantine Books. The entire novel is written from two alternating points of view: as described by the title character in telling the tale to his son; and as it happened in fact. The author's apparent intent is to show how a participant's rendering of the occurrences very frequently diverges from the events themselves as they actually happened. For example, apparently in order to deflect his own personal bravery onto a fallen comrade, Morris tells his son how a comrade of his single-handedly broke an ambush his platoon had come under and received a posthumous medal for the act, but the reader learns that in the actual events Morris