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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Memorial

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Location: Madison Avenue between 24th and 25th Streets
Description: Plaque on plinth
Materials: Bronze, granite
Dimensions: H: 12" W: 20" D: ½"
Dedicated: May 30, 1946
Donor: Metropolitan Post #385, American Legion
Inscription: DEDICATED BY / METROPOLITAN POST 385 / THE AMERICAN LEGION
DEPARTMENT / OF NEW YORK / TO ALL MEMBERS OF / METROPOLITAN LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY / WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN / THE ARMED
FORCES IN THE TIME OF WAR / MAY 30, 1946/

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