Ave N and Kings Highway

I haven't updated this blog in quite a while. Partly it was because I was taking a lot of pictures on my phone and they're a pain to transfer. And partly because there are other blogs doing the same thing that are probably more entertaining or have more information.

For any newcomers, I'm a walker. My father had me and my borther walking all of this city from an early age. I take a lot of walks, particularly in the summer (I'm a teacher), and I got tired of walking the same curcuit about my neighborhood, so started branching out. In May 2019, I started tracking where I was walking. Then the pandemic hit, and I found myself with a lot more time to walk.

I'm still walking.

On Monday, January 30, 2023, I walked a section of Ave O that I hadn't walked already. Then I walked a bit up Kings Highway until I reached Ave N. At that intersection, there's a small triangle of land, created along with E31 Street. I have thought about the idea of documenting these triangular patches of land, but that's not likely to happen.

In this corner, there's a flag and monument for Marine Major Eugene T. McCarthy. I paused there a moment to pay my respects and thank him for his service.

I looked up the man, who was born in Brooklyn, and found the following:

Maj. Eugene Thomas McCarthy, a Marine Corps reservist and Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was killed in action in the Persian Gulf War. He is remembered as a gung-ho warrior who thought he could serve his country best by "being where the war was." McCarthy, a helicopter pilot, died Feb. 2, 1991 when his Cobra gunship crashed while he was flying a mission in support of ground troops in Saudi Arabia.

Here are some pictures from today's walk. The map image is a screenshot of Map My Walk.



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