• NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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    Well, it was completed in 1941 while the US was still strongly isolationist. We didn’t enter WW2 until after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was December 7th.

    So yeah, there was a world war going on, but the statue was planned and completed while it was largely “business as usual” in the US.