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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.