The DeWitt Clinton Park doughboy

This statue of a pensive infantryman was dedicated in 1929. It’s a memorial to the young men in the neighborhood, Hell’s Kitchen, who lost their lives in World War I. 

Check out the verse inscribed on the base of the statue—the last three lines from In Flanders Fields, the solemn war poem written by Canadian John McCrae, a surgeon at Ypres. 

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