The Great War's end - a grandmother remembers

Marie Starace, about nine years old in this photograph from her First Communion, who lived in the borough of Brooklyn in 1918 when World War One ended, is seen in this picture from 1908, in New York, U.S., November 9, 2018. Picture taken November 9, 2018. Courtesy of the Reinhold family/Handout via REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jubilant New Yorkers took to the streets when the Great War ended at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, my late grandmother’s ninth birthday.

The gritty Brooklyn waterfront neighbourhood where she lived celebrated mightily, but a grim legacy of the war went on to take an even deadlier toll.