The Brooklyn Ink

Death and Life, a Church in Wartime

  Windsor Terrace is a quiet section of Brooklyn where war isn’t far from people’s minds. The neighborhood has sent more than its share of young men and women to Iraq and Afghanistan – in [...]

On Veterans Day Soldiers’ Votes Still Not Counted

By Michael del Castillo The Department of Justice has granted a waiver to New York State delaying the counting of as many as 22,000 New York soldiers’ votes who requested ballots from overseas this year. [...]

Farewell to Kevin O. Hill, Son and Soldier

Army Specialist Kevin O. Hill was laid to rest at Cypress Hills Cemetery on Saturday morning, the day after his family, friends and fellow soldiers gathered at a quiet ceremony to bid him farewell.

The Life and Death of Army Spec. Kevin O. Hill

The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was dead. He was a 23-year-old soldier from Brooklyn deployed in Afghanistan.