Joseph feels muddled about the way things happened at the court house
I would say the author uses irony in this passage that remembering his mother makes him not happy but miserable which may be the opposite of what is expected but he would rather suffer this than be happy in forgetting her as this latter feeling would be expected to make him sad.
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Rescue drones can take off from and land on trucks and special vehicles
The capital city of New York State is Albany