Uncle Joe alongside the Military Cemetery in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, NY

My Uncle Joe O'Donnell (on the right) sitting with a friend alongside "Snake Hill" in the Cypress Hill section of Brooklyn, NY. In the background is the Military Cemetery whose entrance is on Jamaica Ave.  Not too many years later, on Oct. 13, 1951, when he was 29 years old, my Uncle Joe was killed in action on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea and was laid to rest in this cemetery.  His grave site was directly behind where he is sitting on this particular day (date not known).  His wife Marie Murphy O'Donnell, who also died tragically on June 25th 1965 at the age of 40, was laid to rest beside him.