Welcome Back Home, Everett WA
Start a cemetery pilot
A pilot puts a code on five markers so your community can see, on their own phones, what a memorial program looks like before committing to more.
Who it is for
Cemeteries
Municipal, private, and veterans cemeteries that want each marker to open a story.
Veterans organizations
Posts and chapters honoring members and the local veterans they served with.
Tribes
Tribal nations keeping the record of their veterans in their own words and names.
Towns
Cities and counties with a memorial wall, a park, or a courthouse plaque.
What a pilot includes
Up to five memorials
Five veterans or MIA service members, each with their own page and address.
Print-ready codes
One code per memorial as PNG and vector SVG, sized for engraving, etching, or stickers.
Family submission review
An Add a memory form on every page. Submissions reach a review inbox; nothing publishes on its own.
One training session
A working session with your staff or volunteers on reviewing submissions and placing codes.
The steps
Send us your roster or five names
A spreadsheet, a cemetery record, or an email with five names, ranks, branches, and dates.
We build draft pages for your review
Draft memorial pages, with the story and photos you supply, on private review links.
You approve, we ship codes
Once each page is approved, the print files for its code are sent to you and your engraver.
Place them
Plaques, stickers, or stone etches go on the markers. A test scan on site confirms each one.
Families add memories
Families and friends scan, read, and send their own stories and photos for review.
Timeline
About two weeks from roster to codes. Most of that is your review of the draft pages; the code files are ready the day a page is approved.
What it costs
Pilots are arranged through Welcome Back Home; contact them below.
Contact Welcome Back HomeThe physical program
A memorial program is plaques on markers, not only pages. This is what goes on the ground and how it is placed.
The plaque, at real size
Two common sizes. The 50 mm plaque is the smallest we recommend outdoors; 80 mm reads from a wheelchair or from the path.
Weatherproofing
Engraved metal
Bronze, brushed stainless, or anodized aluminum with a black filled engraving from the SVG file. Lasts as long as the marker. Ask for a matte finish; gloss reflects the sky and can defeat a camera.
UV laminated sticker
Printed from the PNG on outdoor vinyl with a UV laminate, applied to an existing plaque, a stake, or a sign. The least cost and the quickest to place; plan to replace it every few years.
Stone etch
Sandblasted or laser etched into granite or marble from the SVG file, with a black fill so the pattern is visibly darker than the stone. Keep the white square around the code: it is part of the pattern.
Scan distance
A phone reads a code from about ten times its width. A code at ground level next to a headstone is read from standing height, so 50 mm is the sensible minimum outdoors.
| Code width | Comfortable scan distance |
|---|---|
| 25 mm sticker | up to about 25 cm |
| 50 mm plaque | up to about 50 cm |
| 100 mm sign | 1 m and more |
Black on white, matte, with the white border kept. Never gold, silver, or inverted.
Installation
- Print the code on plain paper at the final size and scan it with an iPhone and an Android phone from where a visitor would stand.
- Confirm the phone opens the right veteran's page, then send the file to the engraver or print shop.
- Ask for a proof scan of the first finished piece before the rest are made.
- Mount the code where a standing visitor can see it square on, at least 50 mm wide for anything outdoors, with nothing tight against its white border.
- Scan the placed code once more and tell us where it went, so the placement is recorded against that code.
The re-pointing promise
A printed code never needs to change. It carries a short redirect address, not the page address. If a page is renamed, moved, or the whole site moves to a Welcome Back Home domain, one line in the redirect map is changed and the engraved code opens the right page the same second. Nothing is re-cut, re-etched, or re-printed.
What organizations should know
The questions a board, a cemetery director, or a tribal council asks before a pilot, answered in plain words.
- Content ownership
- Welcome Back Home owns the platform and the content on it. Junious Digital Labs builds and hosts it under contract. Families keep the rights to the photos and stories they send; publishing on a memorial page does not transfer them.
- Review before publishing
- Every memorial page is written from records and family material and read by Welcome Back Home before it is published. Every family submission lands in a review inbox first. No form on this site changes a public page by itself.
- Family consent
- A memorial for a real veteran is published only with permission from the family or the organization that holds the record. Submitters confirm they have the right to share what they send and that Welcome Back Home may publish it after review.
- Accessibility
- Pages are built for a phone held in one hand in daylight: one column, large type, text contrast well above the WCAG AA minimum, keyboard operable, and readable with VoiceOver and TalkBack. Every photograph carries a description.
- Hosting and uptime
- The site runs on Junious Digital Labs servers behind Cloudflare, with a health check on every deploy and an automatic rollback if one fails. It can move to a hostname on Welcome Back Home's own domain at any time; printed codes keep working after a move.
- Daily backups
- Family submissions and the scan log are copied every night and fourteen daily archives are kept. Pages and code files live in version control, so a page can be rebuilt from its history.
- Codes re-point without re-engraving
- Every code carries a short redirect address rather than the page address. If a page is renamed, moved, or the whole site changes domain, one line in the redirect map is changed and the engraved code opens the right page the same second. Nothing is re-cut.
- Support
- Questions about a memorial, a family, or a placement go to Welcome Back Home through their website. Technical support for the platform comes from Junious Digital Labs, inquire@juniouslabs.digital.
- Privacy and retention
- Family submissions and photos are kept on JDL's server for the life of the hosting plan, backed up daily for 14 days, and exported or deleted at the Client's written request within 10 business days. The scan log stores only a salted daily hash of the visitor address, never the address itself.
Families can read the privacy notice for the submission form: what is collected, who sees it, and how to ask for deletion.
Ready to talk about five markers?
Take the one-page brief to your board, then contact Welcome Back Home to arrange a pilot.