Jumat, 09 Februari 2018

Valor: Broadway’s Fighting Priest

Lt. Col. Francis P. Duffy U.S. Army DSC, DSM, Légion d’honneur, Croix de guerre France, 1918 Only two men are honored with life-sized statues in New York’s Times Square, epicenter of the American theater industry. The statue on the south side pays tribute to George M. Cohan, the legendary Broadway producer, actor, playwright and composer …

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