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Intriguingly, monument on right seems to be about the Civil War, which ended almost 20 years before Washington was a state.
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frustrating to me that almost every single monument at every town I've ever visited in the US is a war monument.
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Seattle has a couple of Spanish American War ones
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Many settlers, and the most prominent men instrumental in establishing its statehood were veterans of the Civil War.
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Post Civil War settlers. My understanding is that there are also Confederate monuments in WA state for that reason, and which have been part of the larger debate over Civil War monuments.
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