Administered by City of Paterson Parks Department 800 Broadway Paterson New Jersey 07510
Located Pennington Park McBride Avenue Paterson New Jersey
Date:
Modeled 1928. Dedicated 1930
Notes:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.
Image on file.
GAETANO FEDERICI/Sc. (On front of granite base, incised lettering:) DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO SERVED AND GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/WORLD WAR II/1941-1946/KOREAN WAR/1950-1955/DESERT STORM/1991/DEDICATED BY THE PATERSON VETERANS COUNCIL MAY 30, 1993/GRENADA DN LEBANON/1982-1984/PANAMA/1989-1990 (On bronze plaque on back of granite base:) (relief of seven faces in profile) TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PATERSON WHO IN THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONFLICT GAVE YOUTH HOPE AND LIFE ALL TO THE WORLD'S NEEDS 1914-1918 (list of approximately 195 names) signed
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Summary:
The memorial consists of a tall granite obelisk adorned at the base with a bronze sculpture of two soldiers actively engaged in battle, one armed with a bayonet and the other a cocked 45-caliber pistol. The soldiers stand on a rocky ledge and aim their weapons at an unseen enemy below them. The bronze sculpture rests on a low granite base attached to the front of the tall granite obelisk.
