Fourteen to receive Quilts of Valor

MONONA — Fourteen veterans, including one each from World War II and the Korean Conflict, will receive Quilts of Valor during two separate ceremonies next Friday.
 
The quilts, which have been given out across the United States for 14 years, were the vision of Delaware’s Catherine Roberts whose son was serving in Iraq. She envisioned a quality quilt that would be awarded and not just passed out. The first Quilt of Valor was presented at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to a soldier from Minnesota who had lost his leg while serving in Iraq.
 
Diana Parker, who helps organize MFL MarMac’s Quilts of Valor, described the meaning of the quilts at the ceremony last year, noting that the top layer represents community, love and gratitude towards the recipient, the middle layer is for hope, comfort and peace and that the back layer, that holds the quilt together, is for strength.
 
Read the full article in the Wednesday, November 8, 2017 edition of The Outlook.

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