The memorial, which was originally designed by the renowned architectural sculptor Isidore Konti, was built in 1922 to honor the Yonkers veterans who fought and died in World War I, explained landscape architect Ralph Crosby, RLA, of Yonkers, who is a veteran of the Korean War. “He sculpted a lady [in bronze] who is basically an angel looking up to the sky, and she’s presenting all these people who died in World War I,” he said. “Then the Second World War came, and they put tablets below. They did the same after Korea and Vietnam.”