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From left, Gary Cambell, retired Air Force, Richard Buchanan, retired Marines and John Poimiroo, retired Navy, helped bring the monument to Placerville.

Memorial bricks are mortared in at the El Dorado County Veterans Monument.

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of the Vietnam War. Others list those from our county who paid the supreme sacrifice during WWII or who demonstrated heroism under fire in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

Woven into the fabric of the monument are many hidden symbols of past service. Placed in the concrete foundation of the ring along the Walk of Honor is a pound of sand gathered on D-Day from Omaha Beach by a local Army captain who fought there, that day. Within the concrete walkways and foundations are hundreds of military insignia worn by El Dorado County veterans during their service to our country.

Soil taken from numerous battlefields on which American soldiers shed their blood in defense of the cause of freedom has been sprinkled into the planter directly in front of the Honor Wall.

Any El Dorado County resident may place a small amount of soil there from a battlefield or ocean where Americans fought, simply by emailing from what battle the soil originated, when the soil was placed and by who to: memorials@ eldoradocountyveterans. org.

Several benches memorialize generations of El Dorado County veterans. Among them is a bench honoring SSgt. Sky Mote, USMC NC, a Union Mine High School graduate who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for courageously battling an Afghan soldier who had infiltrated his command headquarters in 2012. Others memorialize service by the Combellack, Carroll, Taylor, Wiglesworth, Stancil and Soike families. Similarly, numerous families have clusters of bricks placed along the Walk of Honor.

Standing alone beneath a blue oak tree, a black granite bench remembers Prisoners of War and soldiers Missing in Action. Nearby is the Veerkamp Tree, a Colorado blue spruce that is decorated every Christmas by the Veerkamp family for veterans who will not be home at Christmas.

Planned for installation on a lawn near the POW/MIA bench are three bronze statuary depicting a veteran’s idealized return home, one that many never received. Called “Welcome Home,” the statues will be crafted by famed sculptor of militarythemed sculptures, Rip Caswell. The statues will depict a serviceman and servicewoman being welcomed home enthusiastically by a Labrador retriever. The dog represents friends and families and the service members represent all branches of military service. A campaign to raise funds for the statuary, managed by the El Dorado Community Foundation, begins this month.

All of El Dorado County’s sons who did not return from the Vietnam War are listed on a bench dedicated during the Vietnam War’s 50th commemoration. Beside it is another bench that memorializes all wars since Vietnam, the wars of the late 20th and 21st centuries.

In Section I of the Walk of Honor, a granite stone to President and General of the Armies George Washington stands alone. It will eventually be surrounded by service men and women,

Mountain Democrat photo by Krysten Kellum

Memorial bricks can be purchased for any honorably discharged veteran, living or dead.

as he was when he fought for our nation’s independence.

Section V of the Walk of Honor includes a section of bricks honoring El Dorado County’s Nisei warriors of the all-JapaneseAmerican 100th Infantry Battallion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team. They comprise the most decorated military unit in U.S. Army history for its size and length of service.

Memorial bricks can be purchased for any honorably discharged veteran, living or dead, online at eldoradocountyveterans. org. The $150 fee helps fund scholarships awarded to the children of veterans. Management of the Veterans Monument and its ceremonies is handled by the El Dorado County Veterans Alliance, a 501.c3 charitable organization.

This is the first in a series of spotlight features to appear in the Mountain Democrat and on Sierra Community Access TV2. Spotlight features focus on community resources. Channel 2 will air the program at 7:04 p.m. and 10:49 p.m. Friday night and on various days thereafter. The program can also be viewed on the station’s You Tube channel.

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