Photo of the Day: Woman With Child, Brooklyn War Memorial, Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn NY

This image is a detail of a sculpture on the right side of the Brooklyn War Memorial in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn. On the left side of the memorial, which I posted about 3½ years ago, is a male warrior. What you see here, bookending it, is a mother and child—what, in effect, the warrior is fighting for.

Both larger-than-life images were molded by the sculptor Charles Keck (1875–1951), who also created the statue of Fr. Francis Duffy (chaplain of New York’s famed 69^th Regiment during WWI), which now anchors the theater distinct in midtown Manhattan, in the square named for the priest.