This Memorial stands on Avenue U and Village Rd. N. It also known as Lady Moody Triangle because Gravesend was founded by Lady Deborah Moody 1643. Lady Moody was a wealth, Protestant widow, who came from England to American in 1639 and settled in Brooklyn. She got the name Gravesend from her hometown in England. Lady Mood was the first of women to get “a land patent, to write the first own charter in English in New Netherland, and to establish one of the first towns with a square block plan in the New World.” The policy of Gravesend was of free religion which set apart from other colonial settlements. This memorial commemorates and is dedicated to all who have served in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard during the WWII and engraved on one side of the memorial is “IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO PRESERVE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.” On the other side is brief history of Gravesend the community that was founded by Lady Moody. I think it is a beautiful monument because of its simplicity and also because it is to the point.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lady-moody-triangle/history
http://www.memorialdayfoundation.org/new-york/gravesend-veterans-memorial.html

Samira Yakubova