Welcome Home 2024
Honoring and Assisting
those veterans
who have served the Cause of Freedom.
Welcome Home 2024
Honoring and Assisting
those veterans
who have served the Cause of Freedom.
Welcome Home 2024
Welcome Home portrays a joyous return from duty for two El Dorado County members of the U.S. Armed Forces. It is the welcome that every service man or woman looks forward to receiving and should receive upon returning home from duty.
Our History
Standing is a life-sized bronze male figure dressed in early 2000s fatigues similar to those worn by the U.S. Army, Air Force and Coast Guard. Kneeling is a bronze female figure dressed in fatigues similar to those worn by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Rating and warfare patches are obscured intentionally, so that the figures can represent anyone.
Running joyously toward them is a bronze Labrador retriever, symbolic of the joy that family and friends have over the return of their service man or woman from duty. It also represents the welcome that some service members never got, but which through the statuary will never end. The bronze statuary was conceived by the El Dorado County Veterans Alliance (aka Friends of the Veterans Monument) and designed by famed sculptor of military themes and figures, Rip Caswell.
Our Programs
Annual Memorial Day and Veterans Day Ceremonies are presented at the El Dorado County Veterans Monument in Placerville at 360 Fair Lane.
Included are three flyovers by a squadron of WWII warbirds, a parade of flags led by representatives of El Dorado County's veterans organizations, scouts and historical reenactors, patriotic music and bugle calls, presentation of Memorial Day proclamations, display of a list of more than 200 El Dorado County veterans who died in the previous year, presentation of a memorial wreath, presentation of EDC Veterans Monument scholarships to the children of veterans by the EDC Veterans Coalition, dedication of memorial bricks honoring past service and a tribute to those who died serving the cause of freedom.
