{"id":25297,"date":"2024-03-29T22:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/quilts-of-valor-wraps-lamar-veterans-in-comfort-and-brotherhood\/29\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:48:56","slug":"quilts-of-valor-wraps-lamar-veterans-in-comfort-and-brotherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/quilts-of-valor-wraps-lamar-veterans-in-comfort-and-brotherhood\/29\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilts of Valor wraps Lamar veterans in comfort and brotherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LAMAR, Mo. \u2014 Four Vietnam War era veterans were honored Friday (3\/29) in Lamar.<\/p>\n<p>March 29th is Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day \u2014 and each of the four veterans, today, weren\u2019t only thanked for their service and welcomed home \u2014 each also received a handmade quilt. Those came from Quilts of Valor \u2014 a national nonprofit that \u2014 since 2003 has stood by its mission of covering service members and veterans, touched by war, with comfort and healing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think, today, it helped them bring their brotherhood together, being in this community, even though they served with different units. It\u2019s still kind of a group thing and I think it was healthy for them to be together as a group on this day,\u201d said Chris Kremp, Quilts of Valor Group Leader Barton-Dade Counties.<\/p>\n<p>The four veterans, by the way, Jack Dimond, Michael Main, Tom Reigel, and John Watkins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourstateshomepage.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KSNF\/KODE | FourStatesHomepage.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KSNF\/KODE | FourStatesHomepage.com. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/quilts-valor-wraps-lamar-veterans-002220495.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAMAR, Mo. &mdash; Four Vietnam War era veterans were honored Friday (3\/29) in Lamar. March 29th is Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day &mdash;<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/quilts-of-valor-wraps-lamar-veterans-in-comfort-and-brotherhood\/29\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}