Daniel Wolfe was born on April 16, 1930, in the Bronx , NY. It was a time our country was beset with the Great Depression. His father, a tailor earned his combat ribbons with oak leaf clusters in his battle for economic survival.

By making just enough effort to pass his classes in elementary, junior and senior high school, Wolfe earned an academic diploma in 1948. College was not an option, income was. In 1949 he left the Garment District, to become a switch tender-brakeman for the New York Central RR from where he was drafted for the Korean War.

By distinguishing himself when the Chinese ambushed his company, The Bronze Star Medal with a “V” for valor was awarded to him.

Wolfe returned home with the skills he learned in the army. Since he could not apply these talents to civilian life he took aptitude exams under the government’s auspice at New York University.  He was told he qualified for college. Wolfe entered the City College of New York under the GI Bill in 1954, was graduated in 1958 as a Biology-Ed major and then began teaching at Jane Addams H. S. A young woman came to the school as a librarian. After a few weeks of dating she convinced Wolfe that life with her was the only option. They were married in 1962 and had three children.

Wolfe and his wife retired in 1990 then moved to Chapel Hill, N.C. Flaherty, his sergeant from Korea called him to say he found about seventy men plus the commander of the company. A reunion with our men would be memorable. He asked Wolfe to write a newsletter. Thirty men and their wives came to the reunion at Fort Stewart, Georgia . The men recollected the fun, the patrols, the raids and the tragic casualties. This awakened a long, dormant experience which motivated Wolfe to write, Cold Grounds Been My Bed: A Korean Memoir, a tragic and humorous story of his experience of his military service.