Angels in America

In Remembrance of Our War Dead.

In Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station there is a sculpting of an angel lifting up the body of a dead man.  During my freshman year at Villanova I passed it numerous times, in awe at the craftsmanship.  Only yesterday did I read the engraving at its base: “In Memory of the Men and Women of the Pennsylvania Railroad who Laid Down their Lives for Our Country, 1941-1945.”