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Clearwater Veterans Park completed
Home at last • A new statue, called "Returning Home," takes permanent residence in the Clearwater Veterans Park. Sutton Betti, a Colorado-based sculptor, installed the bronze sculpture on Monday.
As an American flag ripples in the breeze, a soldier returning from the battlefield lifts his wife high into his arms. In her rush to greet him, her shoes become casualties of love, scattered beneath them as their daughter clings to his leg, her face blooming with relief.
The embrace is cast in bronze, now a permanent part of Clearwater's landscape. Sculptor Sutton Betti, of Loveland, Colorado, installed the piece - Returning Home - Monday at the veterans park near Main and Nebraska streets.
The sculpture marks the completion of the park committee's third phase of fundraising to honor local se...
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