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Sat, Oct 24
|Wartburg College
Retrieving Freedom 15th Anniversary Graduation Celebration
Watch our Service Dogs formally placed with the Veterans and families who have been waiting for them. Refreshments, dogs, and the Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. Free to attend.
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Wartburg College, 100 Wartburg Blvd, Waverly, IA 50677, USA
Guests
About the event
You’re Invited To Join The Celebration
Fifteen years ago, Retrieving Freedom placed its first Service Dog. Since then more than 200 dogs have gone home with Veterans with disabilities and children with autism in 32 states.
On October 24 we are marking that in a room full of the people who made it possible.
The evening opens with dinner and moves into stories told by the teams themselves, the Veterans and families who live alongside these dogs every day. Raffles, games, and a silent auction run throughout the night.
Every dog in this room represents a minimum of two years of training and roughly $50,000 in breeding, veterinary care, and specialized preparation. No Veteran and no family has ever paid any of it. That is only possible because of the people who fill rooms like this one.
This is the moment the work becomes real.