Quilts of Valor awarded to honor service members’ bravery

  • Quilts of Valor recipients received their quilts to honor their service during active duty. Pictured left to right, Vernon Hamar, Cornelius Dale Nickles, Danny Wayne Rhoads, and Sylvanus J. Williams, IV. Cam Henderson/WDN
“The Quilts of Valor Foundation” is a national organization founded in 2003 by “Blue Star” mom Catherine Roberts. For those not familiar with the term “Blue Star,” it identifies mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, foster mothers, and female legal guardian of children who served in the military guard or reserves or children who are veterans. “Gold Star” refers to those who have lost a child who…

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