Private First-Class Joseph Patrick Strippoli (1946 – 1968) perished while serving in the Vietnam War. Strippoli was born in Manhattan and attended Our Lady of Good Counsel Parochial School in Yorkville until the age of ten, when his family moved to Woodside, where he attended P.S. 151 and William Cullen Bryant High School. An able and talented young man, Strippoli earned an academic scholarship and won several awards for his sculpture. In 1968, at the age of 21, Strippoli was tragically killed by a landmine near the Cambodian border during his service in Vietnam.