Small Sunnyside’s big plans for veterans memorial

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Work continues on the block-long veteran's plaza in downtown Sunnyside, Wash. When completed, the Jerry Taylor Veterans Plaza may be the largest veteran's memorial in the Northwest. (ROSS COURTNEY/Yakima Herald-Republic)
Work continues on the block-long veteran's plaza in downtown Sunnyside, Wash. When completed, the Jerry Taylor Veterans Plaza may be the largest veteran's memorial in the Northwest. (ROSS COURTNEY/Yakima Herald-Republic)
Work continues on the block-long veteran’s plaza in downtown Sunnyside, Wash. When completed, the Jerry Taylor Veterans Plaza may be the largest veteran’s memorial in the Northwest. (ROSS COURTNEY/Yakima Herald-Republic)

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If patriotic monuments were a contest, Sunnyside might just pull out an upset.

When finished, the city’s blocklong Jerry Taylor Veterans Plaza may arguably be the largest veterans memorial in the Northwest, according to organizers.

“It gives me bragging rights when I travel,” said Mayor Jim Restucci, himself an Army and Washington Army National Guard veteran.

The plaza, named for a World War II veteran and 1970s Sunnyside mayor known for patriotic civic projects, will havehire vets 42 engraved slabs of granite — each about 8 feet tall — plus thousands of paving blocks, several metal eagle statues and a larger-than-life silhouette cutout of a soldier, designed to symbolize the passing of a veteran into eternity.

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