Tag Archives: World War I

The First World War, fought from 1914-1918, was the largest war to date. It is remembered most for its brutal trench warfare in Western Europe.

The McLaughlin Park World War I Memorial

Visiting a weathered World I Memorial on Tillary and Jay Streets in Downtown Brooklyn.

The first Veterans Day proclamation.

〜34 poems from a little-known, but oft-published, early twentieth century poet from Buffalo〜

Studying a marine painting by the great British marine painter, Norman Wilkinson.

Remembering the war to which Veterans Day owes its date with a harrowing story of a “double quarantine”

“In the land he loved next to his own he will always lie, content that he gave his all to a cause that was so near to his heart.”