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✎ "To the Men of the Fire Department of the City of New York Who Died At The Call Of Duty. Soldiers in A War That Never Ends." The memorial was inspired by the death of Deputy Fire Chief Charles W. Kruger in February, 1908....
✎ The monument proper, designed by architect H. Van Buren Magonigle and sculptor Attillio Piccirilli, is in the form of a Knoxville marble votive tablet about 25 feet long, 22 feet high and 8 feet thick, flanked by two statues symbolical of Duty and Sacrifice. Piccirilli's grouping of Duty depicts a "woman with a dead fireman lying across her knees," and Sacrifice is represented by "a fireman's widow reciting to her child the story of his father's death" with a fire hydrant by her side. Piccirilli chose the highly popular model Audrey Munson to pose for both women.
✎ The memorial was unveiled on September 5, 1913 during the Convention of the International Association of Fire Engineers.

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