"Centenial"

"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.