Editing Eden Prairie, Minnesota (section)

==Arts and culture==
In 2008, Eden Prairie raised roughly $500,000 from the community to build a veterans memorial.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Engstrom |first=Tim |date=November 10, 2017 |title=Eden Prairie Veterans Memorial turns 10 |url=https://www.swnewsmedia.com/eden_prairie_news/news/local/eden-prairie-veterans-memorial-turns-10/article_84b140a7-d012-5242-8a86-29309d2504dd.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204231253/https://www.swnewsmedia.com/eden_prairie_news/news/local/eden-prairie-veterans-memorial-turns-10/article_84b140a7-d012-5242-8a86-29309d2504dd.html |archive-date=February 4, 2023 |access-date=February 4, 2023 |website=SWNewsMedia.com |language=en}}</ref> The memorial has two components, service to country and world peace. It was constructed in Purgatory Creek Park near the intersection of Technology Drive and Prairie Center Drive. Sculptor Neil Brodin designed and constructed two bronze sculptures. The service-to-country sculpture represents a wounded airman carried over the shoulders of a soldier in the battlefield.

The world-peace sculpture depicts a woman service member touching a globe, honoring women who have served. Community members could purchase a place on the memorial for the names of loved ones who served in any branch of the U.S. service in any war or conflict. Minnesota-based [[Coldspring (company)|Cold Spring Granite]] provided Mesabi black granite for the memorial's walls.