Nebraska 4-H youth, families, and volunteers are invited to participate in a statewide community service effort by creating and donating quilts to the service men and women who are protecting our country and who are "touched by war." The quilts will be collected and given through the Quilts of Valor Foundation.
4-H members and volunteers can work alone or in groups to make the quilts. Donations of fabric, batting or machine-quilting may be located in order to complete the project. Service organizations or other donors in the community may help provide funds for the Quilt of Valor. The quilts may then be entered in county fairs and the Nebraska State Fair in the citizenship, quilt quest, or design decisions project areas.
If you are interested in participating in this project, please review the Nebraska 4-H Quilts of Valor Statewide Guidelines.
The Quilts of Valor Presentation will be held at the Nebraska State Fair. For times and locations, please see the 4-H State Fair schedule.
Thank you for your support of the United States military!
After the 2015 Nebraska State Fair, Sara Kenny, Nebraska Coordinator, will accept the quilts donated and will send them to USA medical facilities for distribution. In 2014, most of the quilts went to Korean War Honor Flight Veterans from Nebraska. Recently 200 wounded military men and women flew back to their homes in the U.S. It was awesome that ALL 200 SOLDIERS were covered by a comforting Quilt of Valor as they flew back home.
“I’ve seen the comfort and healing that Quilts of Valor bring to veterans who, throughout our lifetimes have guaranteed that we live in the freest country in the world. Sometimes they bring miracles as they are wrapped around the soldier. In a few weeks, we will award our 100,000 th Quilt of Valor – yet there is such a need that there are 1000 unfilled requests for Quilts of Valor."
-- Susan Gordon, Executive Director of the Quilts of Valor Foundation
Below is an example thank you note shared from a recipient:
Dear . . .
I cannot thank you enough for the time, energy, resources and LOVE that you put into making and sending the quilts for our wounded soldiers. We received your box just in time as we had recently run out. One of your quilts went out with a soldier today - he is going to Germany and on to the states. He smiled as we told him it was his to keep and even commented that it “smells like home”. It is a small comfort that reminds them the folks at home care and support them.
Sincerely,
Staff Sgt. Megan E from the ICU unit in Shank-East, Afghanistan.
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