This is totally wrong of your leader. There are rules on the QOV site and she has broken so many of them. The recipients have to be touched by war, meaning that they had to be overseas fighting. If they were sitting on the beach in Florida being a vet, they don't get a quilt. There are so many veterans who are needing it. When we make presentations to the WWII vets, and Vietnam, and Korea, they always say, "Why did I get this? I was only doing my job." That makes you feel so good inside just providing that quilt to them.
Originally Posted by
Inez Ruth
I used to make quilts for a local Quilts of Valor group until the leader awarded one to her husband who had never served a day in his life and even had the gall to send his name to the national organization as a recipient. She then decided that anyone who had ever served in any capacity had PTSD and should get a quilt. She just wanted to increase her numbers of awarded quilts. As the mother of a disabled Iraq war vet, this really made me angry.