Joseph Anthony Marchese
Born: Milwaukee, WI 1926
Died: Whittier, CA 1971

Served from 1943-1946 as a Torpedoman's Mate 3rd Class on the destroyer escort vessel, U.S.S. Burke, in the Atlantic Theater of Operations, protecting U.S. Navy ships from German U-boat attack as they sailed from New York to Ireland and North Africa

Thanks, Dad. We'll never forget you.

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To stab the moles in my lawn through the neck with a pitchfork, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of the mole-women!

Then, BBQ'ed steak and cocktails!

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