"The basis for optimism is sheer terror." — Oscar Wilde
Below most of the trees along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn are these small copper plaques. Each dedicated to the memory of a soldier killed in WW1. "The Great War" or "World War" as it was once known. We are still in the centennial years of the 1914~1918 conflict. I walked past these everyday on my way to Catholic school as a child. They slowly had their affect.
Amen.
3 comments:
I wonder how many monuments there are to those who made huge fortunes from that war? How many mansions and other items of aggrandizement? I suppose it'd be a major research project to find out.
Z
If I were 20 I'd do my dissertation on that.
Then sell it to Netflix as a series.
Hey I'd have to pay off that damned loan somehow.
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