Jeff Shwom Two bronze Civil War Memorial statues rest on their side in a semi-open wooden box tagged with graffiti in an Inner Belt, Somerville, parking lot.

Veterans and city officials celebrated the return Thursday of two war memorials and cut the ribbon on a new plaza housing them on the Central Hill lawn. But some feel Somerville’s remaining war monuments are being disrespected, lacking a public timeline for their permanent return from storage – now in the corner of an Inner Belt parking lot.

A city ceremony brought back the Vietnam and Korean War memorials for the first time since construction at the neighboring high school between April 2018 and March 2021.

“Today was a great day for Vietnam veterans and democracy. Veterans demanded a return of their monuments and the city respon

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