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Sew great to see the results of all those stitches of love bringing a hug and some comfort to our vets. also thanks for info about being able to send fleece quilts, have at least a gazillion fleece squares that have just been ear-marked for vets comfort hugs.
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Thank you for sharing these photo's. I'll probably have this lump in my throat all day, but it was good to see these quilts covering our most precious young men and woman, it's good to participate in the honorable cause. Ya know, "Freedom is not Free" God Bless
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Originally Posted by MomtoBostonTerriers
This morning I opened the front page of the Washington Post online edition as I always do. The Post had a photo essay of medical evacuations from Bagram Air Base, just outside Kabul, Afghanistan. In many of the photos showing wounded service men awaiting air transport to Germany, the guys were covered with colorful quilts! Made me think of all of you quilters who do this work for our guys and gals in the military. The photos on Washington Post don't stay very long, but I will provide the link here just in case you are able to catch the article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...rtslot#photo=6 God bless you quilters who send reminders of love to our military personnel. God bless our troops! Thanks for sharing this. It was good to see the quilts in use. |
Thanks for this link. It's beautiful to see.
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Originally Posted by watterstide
when my son was on the front lines, he asked for a quilt.
(said he wanted to be wrapped in his moms arms and night) so i started by making him one and it snowballed to others in his group/flight/platoon,whatever you call them..both of his deployments, i made quilts,although with the second deployment, he wanted one in fleece..with the help of fellow quilter friends here at home. sorry the picture is so small..he is holding the corner of his quilt up.. |
Originally Posted by luvstoquilt301
"Restrepo" has its world television premiere on the
<http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...n-outpost-4808> National Geographic Channel, unedited and with limited commercial interruption, on Monday, November 29, 2010, at nine p.m. ET/PT. Quilting to Honor & Comfort Our Wounded, Quilts of Valor Foundation ----------------------------------------------------------------- And this is why I make Quilts of Valor. I am just one of many. Luvstoquilt301, Thank you for posting the information about the National Geographic program. I "watch" a lot of National Geographic shows while I quilt, so I will definitely be tuned to this one. Your quilts are beautiful! That first one, the log cabin, is especially wonderful, but then again I never met a log cabin I didn't like. Somewhere in the drab, dirty, messy areas of our world those quilts are the brightest spots in the lives of 3 soldiers. Thanks to you and to all the quilters on this board who makes quilts for the service personnel. |
Wow..these made me cry...my son was killed in Ramadi Iraq..he died in route to Bagdad....hard to watch but glad to see the soldiers are receiving love quilts to keep them as comfortable as possible...blessings
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now i am having a heart warming cry. that just makes me so happy to see that the quilts are being used for comfort as they were meant for. God bless all of you who are making quilts for these men and women.
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What an awsome story to see & read this morning. What a blessing they are to us & our country. Thanking all the ladies who participated in making these quilts for our Soldiers..I have forewarded this to quilters as well as non quilters & hope to inspire them as it has inspired me.
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Originally Posted by bearlea
Wow..these made me cry...my son was killed in Ramadi Iraq..he died in route to Bagdad....hard to watch but glad to see the soldiers are receiving love quilts to keep them as comfortable as possible...blessings
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