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Quilts to honor our military veterans!

Quilts made to honor a veterans military service

Aug 10, 2023

Good afternoon,

Norwich and Upper Valley residents and hopefully readers,

This story is about quilts made for veterans to thank them for their military service

This story is about a team of two individuals that enjoy making quilts for veterans. The below story is one that was done on March 30, 2022 when the first quilt was presented to George Fraser outside at the parking lot of Dan and Whit’s. Since then this team has been busy making several quilts and the below photos will show them as they were presented to the veterans at the American Legion hall over the past few months. I held off on writing about these as I was tipped off that there would be several and wanted to wait and do one story on all the quilts.

Read the first story to see for yourself and then follow along the other photos to see the honored veterans receiving their quilts. Photos for this story were taken by me and Gary Degasta.

A Quilt for a cause

Newsletter "about Norwich"

March 30, 2022

In the military way of life, there is always another mission that needs to be done in order to meet the unit’s goals. Everyone knows what is expected and works together as a team and the job gets done. Dot Plume and Donna Stearns secret mission of late has been to make Quilts for Combat veterans. They too work well as a team and as you can see from the…

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Each of the below photos will show a veteran receiving their quilt and there are a couple of photos of veteran presentations to our members. There will be a separate story on veterans with presentations and awards coming soon so stay tuned if you wish.

CSM Jeffrey S Goodrich - US Army - Photo courtesy Gary De Gasta

SP4 William J. McCormick - US Army - Dot Plume Quilt maker listens to a question

Sgt. Richard W. Murry Jr. - US Marines and Quilt maker Dot Plume

LCPL Wilbur C. Hardy III - US Marines

SP4 Richard L. Neugass - US Army

LT Colonel Mark Stanovitch - US Marine Corps

LT Colonel Charles E. Dean - US Army

E-3 Robert Armstrong - US Navy

HM2 John P. Sofronas - US Navy (Photo credit for this photo goes to Gary De Gasta)

HM2 John P. Sofronas talks to the Legion members about the Pact Act benefits for Veterans as his service dog Carmen waits patiently. (Photo credit for this photo goes to Gary De Gasta ).

SP-3T Robert G. Parker - US Army

Our legion historian Robert Parker makes a presentation about this day in History

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