Campaign Launched to Re-open Brooklyn War Memorial

Dozens of local community members joined elected officials to honor 26 World War II veterans in a ceremony at the Brooklyn War Memorial on Sunday commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.“I was the one honored to serve,” 95-year-old David Kaplan, an Army vet who was stationed in the Philippines, told CBS 2 News. “We were faced with a terror that’s unbelievable.”The event proved a fitting Memorial Day weekend tribute, to be sure—but it