Yesterday morning's Veterans Day program, sponsored by the Lucas County Veterans Memorial Park association, filled the meeting room at Chariton's American Legion Hall, just south of the park. It was an outstanding crowd and actually a beautiful day, weatherwise, but too windy and a little too chilly to hold the multi-part program in the park itself. So it was moved inside.
A highlight of the program was the presentation of "Quilts of Valor" to three Chariton-area veterans (from left) Joe Cross, Gary Stansberry (represented by his daughter, Robi Halferty) and Gerald Dyer. Stansberry was not feeling well enough to attend.
The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation, launched by Catherine Roberts during 2003, is stated as, "to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor."
Approximately 70 of the quilts have been stitched, quilted and delivered since 2015 in the Lacona, Chariton, Liberty Center and Melcher-Dallas area by a Quilts of Valor sewing group that meets monthly at the American Legion Hall in Melcher but includes members from across the area, including Chariton.
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Beautiful……………….
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