View Single Post
Old 03-09-2013, 06:53 PM
  #16  
Jan in VA
Super Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
Posts: 8,562
Default

Contact your nearest National Guard or American Legion for suggestions. Also call local churches to see if there is a group of sewers/quilters meeting there who are making "soldier quilts".

I found my latest soldier by reading the local news. He has returned from Afghanistan with his service dog who served 4 tours and developed PTSD - yep, dogs get it too - and I contacted the reporter who wrote about them. The reporter put me in touch with the soldier and we will be presenting both of them with quilts during our local guild's quilt show next weekend.

Having taken a stack of quilts to the VA Hospital in Richmond VA 2 years ago, I feel that one of the reasons they are asking for "no more quilts" is because the quilts are piling up in various offices where there are no personnel to properly disperse them and no one cares for them....they are stacked helter-skelter all over the floor. As we left we sort of wished we had just walked up to various men in wheelchairs and handed them a quilt.

Jan in VA
Jan in VA is offline