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Graphic Artist Crafts Eagle's Head For White Plains WWI Monument

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A White Plains native is repairing a World War I monument by handcrafting an eagle's head with his parents, according to lohud.com.

Dedication of the original 1919 White Plains World War I Monument, part of which still stands where Post Road and Maple Avenue meets. Graphic artist Joseph Giglio is handcrafting a new eagle for the top to replace the one long gone.

Dedication of the original 1919 White Plains World War I Monument, part of which still stands where Post Road and Maple Avenue meets. Graphic artist Joseph Giglio is handcrafting a new eagle for the top to replace the one long gone.

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Jim Barg

Graphic artist Joseph Giglio, 54, lives on Long Island, and is here often, visiting with his parents Jack, an Italian mason, and Mary Ann, an art teacher, according to lohud.com.

The original eagle's head on the 1919 monument at Maple Avenue and Post Road was vandalized and never properly replaced, according to lohud.com.

There are plans to rededicate the monument in time for Memorial Day, according to lohud.com.

Read the lohud.com article here.

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