The pond is located at a point to the west of Woodhaven Boulevard and south of Forest Park Drive in a natural depression.

Strack grew up in Woodhaven and ice skated on what was then an unnamed pond.

In the summer, he played in the Rich-Haven Little League, which was composed of children from Woodhaven and Richmond Hill.

He signed up to serve as a paratrooper in 1966 and briefly returned home to marry his childhood sweetheart.

On March 3, 1967 during a combat parachute jump in Vietnam, PFC Strack was killed in a fierce firefight.