I am thinking (which doesn't happen often) maybe the soldier never came home and it was just to hard to keep it around or......maybe there wasn't anyone to keep it. It seems like most people would not just throw it away they would hold on to it forever

You didn't say......hope you bought it! I would have cried to have to leave it behind.

Oh, that's so sad! I've made QOV's and would hate to think that they ended up that way.

hope you bought it. would make a great gift to a gi or vet in a hospital.

My take on this is that the guy who received it did not return. I can see that some folks would not be able to handle something that he might have wrapped himself in even for a little while. I'm hoping that you bought this and re-donated it to QOV so that it may find a permanent home.

Thrift Shops usually have very strict rules that we are not aware of. Until I had a friend who worked at Goodwill, I did not know about how strict they are about employees shopping there, even when they are on break. Hopefully someone will purchase it and love it.

How sad!

that is why I have such a hard time giving my quilts away not unless I really know they want one as I have had the same thing happen to me because they were'nt the right color they ended up in the thrift shop or garage sale also sitting in a beauty shop I over heard a lady say how dumb some people were at an aution as someone paid 75.00 dollars for a quilt needless to say I have 22 on my spare bed but one will go for Christmas to a person I know that will love it

i ask everyone to please not assume anything about the reason the original recipient donated the quilt to the post thrift shop. i especially urge you to think before you judge.

we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.

nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.

we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.

the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.

Thank you for this post. Being a military spouse, I have been forced into the fear of loosing my husband...I am a sentimental person... and as such, I couldn't imagine giving up something that might connect me to my husband in any way if he had not come home from Afghanistan. But having never been in that position (thank God), I can't say that I *would* keep it. I am glad, as a quilter and as a military wife, that whoever received this quilt donated it in such a way that it will come to benefit the military community in some way. That *was* the original intent of it, after all.