Quilts of Valor

Belly up to the table, friends! This time, it's a quilting table and Scott hosts special quilting guests Linda Putney and Cathy Kruse to discuss their group Peacemakers of North Central Iowa https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578504192480 and the larger organization of Quilts of Valor. https://www.qovf.org 

Transcript

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It's time for dinner. Ding dung ding dang ding dung. From the creative mind of Scott Bertelson, after four decades of teaching our impressionable youth the dinner bell, you are invited to enjoy conversational morsels for the mind at Mr. B's dinner party.

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Yeah, dinner. Alright, who's that knocking on my door? Well, you know who it is? It's my two guests. I have two countum two guests for Mr. B's dinner party. Mr.

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B's got a table so wide. Pull up a chair, let your worry slide, school days, tales, and a movie or two. He's serving up wisdom with a side of stew. Belly up to the table, my friend. The feast of thought will never end from travels far to a spiritual climb. Morsels of music served in rhyme.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

Hey guest, what'd you bring for the dinner table today?

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Absolutely nothing. I thought you were bringing the food.

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Oh no, that's Kathy's job.

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Oh, yes, that's my job.

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Okay, we'll go out to eat later and you can pay.

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Okay.

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Anyway, my uh happy podcasters uh out there in Podcast Land, listeners, thank you, are always so excited about bellying up to the table. Have you heard me say that before? Belly up! Well, you have to listen to the podcast. Okay, so all right, folks. You know I always do a silly introduction. So anyway, I'm so happy that I could bring out uh two of my friends to talk about a very worthy uh organization. And so today we're going to talk about quilts for veterans. Quilts of valor. I was close. You were very close. It had a V. We have fun here. We do, we do, yes. So, anyway, so ladies, instead of my uh uh very adoring audience, or at least I tell myself that, uh listening to me babble on today about movie reviews and TV reviews and my spiritual journey and so on and so forth. Let's talk about this very crucial issue. Now, ladies, I don't care who goes first. Oh, first of all, I should introduce my guest. I have Linda Putney. Hello, Scott. Yes, hello, Linda. I used to work with her teaching, loved it. Very, very enjoyable. And then did we retire the same year? No, you went before me. No, no, you went before I did. Okay, well, that works. Yeah. And then the lovely Kathy Cruz.

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Hello there.

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You went after I went.

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I went the same year Linda and I went. Oh, well. Okay. Yes. And so we've been out for four years from teaching. And how long have you been out? Six. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

Doesn't seem that way, but anyway, that's another podcast. Yes. So I don't care who goes first. Tell us about what this project is.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

The project is called Quilts of Valor. And our group is called Peacemakers of North Central Iowa. And peace is spelled P-E-A-C-E. And so Quilts of Valor does quilts for veterans. And it doesn't matter if you served in the United States, across the world somewhere, if you're part of National Guard, whatever it is, you can qualify for a Quilts of Valor. Quilts of Valor was started in Iowa in 2003.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Yep, in Wintersett, Iowa.

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Wait a minute, isn't that where John Wayne was born?

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It was.

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Yay, I should be on Jeopardy.

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The Duke.

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So she started this organization. I believe it was she had a son in the military or something that she decided this was a necessity to do. And so it's a nationwide organization based out of Winterset. And veterans can get nominated to get a quilt of valor. And like I said, it can be no matter what they served in. And then there's a presentation ceremony where the quilt is presented to the veteran. We can do it very simply with just the veteran or just the veteran and their family, or it can be with a group of people. We went to um watch one in Mason City, and it was kind of cool. They had two brothers and then one of the boys is sons. So there were three relatives together getting them.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

And they were from Ford City, weren't they? In the area, yeah. In the area. Okay. One of them worked at um Winnebago, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Yes. So um you can nominate someone. Sorry. They don't knock off. I know. They don't have to um live around here for you to nominate them. If you have family somewhere else in the country, you can nominate them. And then they will find a quilt of valor group that's close to them and assign them to make the quilt for them. So what happens once someone gets nominated, and you have to have some information about um like when they served, whether they were in what branch of the military, and then that goes to a group of people and they decide, okay, this person lives in Winnebago County. So it would go to us to then provide them a quilt. And we would then contact the veteran, see what they would like for a presentation, um, and then we would set that up and present that quilt to them. We don't um like if someone were to nominate a person, we don't say, Oh, what would you like on your quilt? Our goal is to make quilts now so that when we get those nominations, because we've only been doing we started in March. So we are not far into the beginning. We are yeah, we are in the very beginning stages of that. Yeah.

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So we um well the reason why Linda and I decided we wanted to do this was with it being the state where the national headquarters is. There are no counties west of Cerro Gordo, which includes us, Hancock and Winnebago, that has a chapter. And we wanted to make sure that we could get one started so that it could be include more veterans. Right now, the ladies in Cerro Gordo are very busy presenting anywhere, including Hancock and Winnebago counties. Okay, okay, so that um people are honored.

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And one of the last census, there was like over a thousand veterans between the two counties. Now, not all those people have been nominated for a quilt, but if you think about even there's 30 of them, that's a lot of quilts to make. And yes, and they had a statistic not too long ago about the number of people that have been waiting like over two years for a quilt because there's not a lot of people doing it, not a lot of people making quilt, not a lot of organizations. So that was part of our desire to help with this.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

And to make a quilt, it costs us probably at least $300 from start to finish.

SPEAKER_04 7:58

And it's that include labor?

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Yeah, um, no, no, no, no charge on labor here. Yes, there you go. Labor of love and um I've lost my train of things. It's all about Scott over again. It's all about Scott. And so um it it's a spendy thing. It's not made with your Walmart fabric or anything, bought at Hobby Lobby. It's more expensive um fabric from a a quilt store. And the whole process putting sandwiching it together and having it all the layers quilted together, that whole process takes probably at least 25 hours per quilt, and that's for a simple quilt. Yes. And um it's it's just an expensive project.

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It is and time consuming.

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And it's just something that we would like to honor our veterans with. Um, it's not something you can purchase, it's something that that is made. You cannot buy a quilt of valor quilt for someone.

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I can't go to Amazon.

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You cannot go to Amazon, you cannot even go to a quilter and say, Hey, I would like a quilt of valor quilt, and here's my money I have for you. It can't be done.

SPEAKER_04 9:18

Oh my goodness. Wow. So, Lady, don't want to keep asking you about this. I find this fascinating, and no, I don't quilt. So, what I was gonna say is in Wintersted, Iowa, is there a an established business there, a building in Winterstead, Iowa? Have you been to it?

SPEAKER_02 9:35

There's a museum there. And they have offices there. Oh, okay. So, yeah, there is a museum there that you can go look at all these beautiful quilts. Oh, but um yeah, that'll be one of your little road trips.

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Yes.

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It'll be wonderful. Yes, can you drive? Yeah, absolutely. It'll be wonderful. Imagine the fun we can have.

SPEAKER_04 10:00

Kathy can pay for the gas.

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Oh, there you go, and then you have to get paid for the food since I'm driving. Okay, that seems fair. Okay, that sounds like a deal. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

All right, so if I am a veteran in Hancock or Winnebago County, excuse me if I miss this. And my Aunt Gertrude wants to nominate me, tell me the steps.

SPEAKER_02 10:25

So there's a website, it's qov.org, and you can go to that. And when you look through the options of things, you can find the place where it says nominate a veteran. There's a form to fill out, and that's where you'd have to know like their name, their phone number, when they served, where they served, some information like that. And then that gets sent in to the front office, and then they decide, you know, where they live based on um where they live, who would then make them a quilt for that. They also have a way to determine if someone is like from World War II, they're gonna be towards the top of the list to get one.

SPEAKER_06 11:05

Right.

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I see that if there's someone that's medically fragile, that person would go to the top of a list to get them a quilt faster than someone else. And we need a lot of help because we're just, like I said, just starting. So we need people that are willing to cut fabric, people that are willing to sew fabric together, um, to do the long arm quilting of it, to put binding on, to help with presentations. If you don't, I mean you could donate fabric, you could donate money, um, whatever you feel comfortable doing, but we really just need to get started making quilts so we have some on hand.

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Yes, yes.

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So when they say, here you go, here's people you need to give them to, we have them ready to go.

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Right.

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And then that quilt gets a label on it that says quilt of valor given to this person, what military branch they were in. All that information is put on a little label on the back side of the quilt.

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Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 12:09

So amazing and so wonderful. Uh are there any quilts of valor for teachers?

SPEAKER_03 12:17

Well, you know, I think that would have to be maybe memory quilts. I'm just maybe memory quilts.

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Memory quilts. There you go. Which I have.

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Which you do have a few of.

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And I they're wonderful.

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I think maybe I should blame him for me getting started, because you were making those when I started helping you. See, Scott, it all comes back to you.

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I thought you knew that.

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You are the center of the universe.

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I am the apple of your eye. That's it. So, okay, so here's my other question, happy ladies. All right, so I'm listening to Mr. Beast's podcast, and and I feel patriotic and I want to help. I want to sew. Whom do I contact?

SPEAKER_02 13:02

You can contact me. We have a Facebook page. Oh, that's helpful. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 13:07

Like you just I guess you did allude to that earlier.

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So Peacemakers of North Central Iowa is our Facebook. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

So you E-A-C-E, like Peaceman.

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Yes.

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Over in the 60s.

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Yes, we're in the 60s.

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There you go. Um, so you can contact us through there. Um, I believe this episode is going to air after our meeting on Saturday. But we are having a meeting on uh Saturday, June 6th at the Emergency Services Center, and people there can come, and hopefully, we get some people there for to help us out with things. Um, you could also contact me. I'm not hard to find.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

What would your address be, Linda Putney? I'm trying to get there. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 13:52

You're actually going to give your address out. Well, it's kind of no, I think the audience is very trustworthy.

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I have a sign in front of my house that has my last name on it. It's not like I hide.

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She's hiding. Okay.

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I'm willing to do it. I think you should share. I will share. Okay. My address is 506 South 4th Street in Forest City. And that zip code is 50436.

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And you can make a checkout to Quilt of Valor, and in the memo, you would put Peacemakers of North Iowa, and then that way the money that is donated will go directly to our chapter to help us with the expense of making the quilts.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Yeah. Because Quilt of Valor is a big organization, and within that, there's all the accounts for all the different groups.

SPEAKER_04 14:45

Of course.

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So that's why it has to be in the memo line which group you want the money to go to.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Of course, of course. So do they have a convention every year where you all get together and share your experiences with I just wondered. No, they don't.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

So some organizations, some quilts of valor groups like meet monthly and get together to sew.

SPEAKER_06 15:10

Okay.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Or maybe it's weekly, whatever they choose to do. Yes, yes, yes. So, but there's not really like a big group kind of thing, but they do get together and sew, which is one thing I would like us to be able to do is to find a time that we could set a time where people could come together and sew, or pick up fabric, or drop off things they've finished.

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And if you if you can't join us for sewing, you can always pick up a kit, and we will have kits put together, including the pattern, for you to complete on your own, and then return those to us, and we will find a long armor that will quilt it, find someone that will bind it so that it's ready for us to present to a veteran.

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And if you don't want to do it that way, you can purchase your own fabric, use your own pattern. As long as it's something that looks patriotic, that's fine too. You can do all of that and donate the quilt, the quilt top, or if you want to get it quilted and with everything, that's fine too.

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Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 16:15

Many options out there. Many, many options. All right. So, ladies, what do we get to the point? What do we do if we get to the point where you've advertised and you have a website and you've encouraged people to sew or donate or or combo thereof, uh, and you really need more volunteers. What can we do?

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Well, we have some plans for this summer. Oh, good. Good. To like be at some of the city celebrations. Oh, there you go. With sort of a booth. So we're gonna try and be at um the different things between the two counties in the the town celebrations, okay, the county fairs.

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Yes, yeah.

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So we're gonna try and do some things that we try and reach the whole county, and those are planned for this summer.

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Oh, wonderful.

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And I think there will be a lot of people that will be volunteering. I really do.

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Do you know is there, so to speak, a wealth of um quilt makers in the North Iowa area? Whatever the the term wealth means.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

I mean, it is a hard to say. I think there's more than you realize. Okay, because once you start talking to one person, they're like, oh, well, so-and-so makes quilts, or this person does long arming, and you're like, Oh, I didn't know that. So I think there's a lot more than you realize.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

Okay.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Yep. It's not a dying art at all. Okay. It just young people are starting to join in quilt making. And yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

Do they in certain classes in uh school teach quilt making?

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Some schools do. When Linda and I taught at Fore City, and um we started something called Mayterm, um, we taught t-shirt quilt making at that time. Um, which is, you know, just another Islam memory quilt type of thing.

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Yes, yes.

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And um so there are many people that do it. I know that there's probably 10 to 20 different teachers that I know that have made quilts.

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And it was kind of fun with the high school kids, is that some of them really got into the whole sewing thing. And one of them, I don't know, I think it was their grandma had a sewing machine upstairs and got down for her so she could sew. Another girl I know still sews every time I talked to her, she goes, Oh, I just made this. Oh, that's it. So yeah, it's fun.

SPEAKER_04 18:40

Yes. Which brings you to my next question, ladies. What happened? What was the catalyst that made you quilters? It's all Scott's fault.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Well, thank you. I we can blame Scott. But before I even knew Scott, I was a quilter. I know you were. I don't know if I can blame him. But um, when I was pregnant with my son, I decided that every baby needed a quilt. I took quilt lessons, and it took me forever to finish that first quilt, like a year and a half. And and now I'm a little faster than that now.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

I was gonna say, how does that compare to how long it takes?

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Oh, much faster. Okay, just a second. Much, much faster. But that one was all done by hand, it was quilted by hand and all that.

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I'll give you that one.

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Um, yes, so but you can give quilts for many different occasions, you know, to honor our veterans as a family present for a baby, yes, graduation gift. Weddings. So well, weddings, birthdays, so many things.

SPEAKER_04 19:50

Oh, wow. Yes.

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For me, it's actually Kathy that got me started because she was doing quilts. Exactly.

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Okay.

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Um, so she was doing quilts, and since she and I were friends, I kind of started helping her, and it just kind of snowballed into uh, I don't know, a bit of a job kind of sort of not really. Yeah. Anyway, for me, what really did it it was two things that made me want to do the quilts of valor. Right, right. One was um watching the honor flights where they took the veterans to DC to see their monuments. Yeah. And I just felt like it's really important they did that for them, which is wonderful. But I just thought we could do one more thing for them, which would be good. Also, um, the when the 1133rd went to Iraq, and um I knew some people that were in there, and when they came home, it was just very emotional for me because I was just so glad they are back. And I just thought, just those things, I just think we just need to honor them because not every veteran was honored when they came home. And I just think it's very important that they all realize that everybody does care about them, that they are important.

SPEAKER_06 21:09

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

Which brings me to a a question that I simply want your opinion on. Do you think we have a high level of um reverence for our veterans today?

SPEAKER_02 21:21

Oh, I think we do. I think there's a high reverence. I just think people don't always know what they can do to help.

SPEAKER_06 21:27

Okay, that's fair.

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You know, I think you see parades, people stand for the veterans, they cheer for them. Yes, but sometimes you don't know what you can do to help them.

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Yes.

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This would be something that people could help.

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Right. There are more and more Veterans Day um activities. I know when uh Forest City High School, yes, we did a project. Well, it's actually Forest City Community Schools that has a presentation for veterans every year.

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Yes.

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Um, we are one of the first in the area. That had that, and you're seeing other schools that are following in that tradition now, too.

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Yes.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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That is amazing. All right. So I I just simply want to clarify, ladies, they're all a standard design.

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They can be any design you want to make them into. It can be any design. There are size requirements. It has to be, it can't be really small, it can't be huge. But we have all that information. And also that website, the Quilta Valor website has that information as well. But it can be any design you want on the front. It just needs to look patriotic.

SPEAKER_06 22:37

Yes.

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And they want us to stay away from making something that's specifically for a certain branch. Like if it has everything on it that has one branch, because you don't know if the veteran that's going to get that is a part of that branch of the military.

SPEAKER_04 22:52

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I see that. Now you talk about you alluded to having a ceremony. Yes. Okay, and you did you girls say you've been to a ceremony?

SPEAKER_03 23:02

We have been to a ceremony, yeah. We went to one at Cyril Gordo, and they presented to like 10 or 12 people and families come out for this, and it's just a wonderful celebration that honors the people. And they can invite whoever they want to come to it too.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Yep, they can have it as many people there as they would like. If they would prefer to have it something simple with just their own immediate family, we can accommodate whatever it is they would like. Um, at that one or at any ceremony, there are some um readings kind of things that we go through. Also talk about the veteran, where he served, when he served, when she served, those kind of things, and talk about that and anything else that they might want shared.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

A special memory from that time. Oh yeah.

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So it's it's very emotional. There's um of course it is, yes. Yeah, they take a lot of pictures. Yes. So that's it's a it's a good time, it's fun.

SPEAKER_04 24:08

Oh, that sounds great. So this has been fascinating, ladies, and I hope that you have many, many people who will decide that they would like to help with this. So my other question is what does quilting bring to you, to your lives? Why why have you over the years invested so much time with quilting?

SPEAKER_03 24:27

I think everybody has their own reason for why they do it and what it does for them. For me, um, quilting is calming. Okay, it helps reduce my stress. One of the things in quilting that you do is you you cut the fabric, yes, which happens to be my favorite process of the whole thing. Oh, yeah, I it just reduces a lot of stress. Okay. So if I have a lot of stress going on, I will pack my my cutters and everything and my and my material and take it with me where I go to reduce that stress.

SPEAKER_04 25:04

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:05

Yep. Okay. I'm always up for cutting, aren't I? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Yep, yep. Kathy, you need to cut. Also, you cut. Yep.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

Yeah. That that's crazy, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:15

Yeah. Oh what about you, Linda? For part of it.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Part of it is the joy when someone sees their quilts. So a couple years ago for Christmas, I made quilts for my children, my daughter-in-law's, my granddaughters. And um, it's just so much fun to see them go, look at this, and they're excited about it. Um, and just even making them for other people. It's just fun. And for me, you know, everything has to be have a little purple in it for me. I love purple, but I know. So yeah, it's just so pretty. You just look at that stuff, you're like, wow, that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_06 25:56

And yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

So you're a huge Prince fan.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Well, I don't know about that. Not like you, be no, I don't think anybody could be like you. Oh, yes, I saw it on stage. The cities. We won't get into that. Oh, okay. Another story.

SPEAKER_04 26:16

It was very good though. Uh so uh what I would like to say in our our closing uh moments here, ladies, is I would like you to recap who the contact person is, phone number, how to get to the website, and why you're going to start filling up the bus to drive around Ford City and get the quilters on the bus.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Well, how about no phone number, but where to find us on Facebook?

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Okay, it is Peacemakers of North Central Iowa is our group on Facebook. What else did you ask me, Scott? I already forgot. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

And if you know either one of us, reach out to us personally. Oh, yeah. Or you can call us if you know it.

SPEAKER_04 27:00

Don't you put a huge billboard up in your yard?

SPEAKER_03 27:02

There we go. Yeah, I have a big enough yard for it. You do.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

As long as you put it up on top of the hill, not at the bottom of the driveway. This is true. That could be a problem for you.

SPEAKER_04 27:11

Yes. Or you could put it at the entrance of the town you live in.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Hayfield, Iowa. Yes, I could.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

I didn't ask you to give that up, but I guess you did. That's not a town, is it? What is it?

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Um, Hayfield is definitely a town.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Where have you been, Scott? Of course it is. She lives there. There's at least a population. Oh, okay. Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_04 27:32

Well, I'm glad you did. Do they have a post office?

SPEAKER_03 27:35

Not anymore. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

So that makes them not a town?

SPEAKER_04 27:40

Okay, I can't talk about that. All right. It's okay. Ladies, this was short and sweet. It was. And I think that's the way to go many times. I need to practice that myself. So I encourage my listeners to please, please, please think about donating in some way to this very, very worthy cause. Because you may have a veteran in your family. My father was in the Marines. He would have loved to have one.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Almost everyone has a family member. Oh, yes. That served in our military. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

And one thing I want to add, if you have family members that live out of state, but you would like to do a presentation here in Iowa because they're coming back for a celebration of some sort, that can be arranged as well. So even if they live in Texas, but they're going to be in Iowa for something, as long as it's set up enough ahead of time, that could be done that you do it at a family get together back here.

SPEAKER_04 28:42

And may I ask then, ladies, you would you or somebody would help organize? Yes, right. Yes, you would. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Yeah, once when the nomination goes in, they then say, okay, this person is going to be in Iowa, even though they live out of state, and they want to do it here. And then you would be in contact with them or the family and get it set up.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, ladies, once again, name an organization.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Quilts of Valor. Why don't you make t-shirts? Well, maybe we could. You want us to do everything, so I'm just trying to get this. We are retired.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

Well, you know that's a very misplaced word because we don't know what that is.

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We're busier than ever now.

SPEAKER_04 29:31

Exactly are. But you are speaking of three people who uh uh very heartily served the public school system and lived to tell about it. So anyway, thank you, ladies. Thank you. Thank you, Scott. Thank you, Kathy, thank you, Linda, and thank you for giving of your time. Well, folks, I know you're shocked, but that's it for today. Don't fall out of your chair. I know you're used to me warbling. Is that the word? For maybe more than an hour or so, but not today, because we covered everything you need to know. And I give you the challenge to go forth, find that website, go to Winterset. Some didn't some president live in Winterset?

SPEAKER_03 30:19

No, it was John Wayne. Oh, he was president. He was not a president of the United States.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

Oh, I thought he was.

SPEAKER_03 30:25

Might have been a president of Westerns.

SPEAKER_04 30:28

Westerns. Okay, but that's another podcast.

SPEAKER_03 30:33

You don't have to go to Winterset to support Guilt of Valor. No.

SPEAKER_04 30:37

No, no, not at all. Did they have a big sign as you're coming into town that they have this museum in Winterset? I've never been to Winterset.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_04 30:50

Well, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

They do have a big sign that John didn't John weights from there.

SPEAKER_04 30:53

Yes, yes, yes. So, anyway, we digress again, folks. So have a great day out there and always, always, always remember the veterans in your family and how important those people are to what we have today in this country. Until we meet again, or not meet again, this is Mr. B with Mr. B's dinner party saying, Don't forget to bring the casserole.

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