A local woman has helped make hundreds of handmade quilts to honor her son who died while deployed in Iraq. On Memorial Day, she hopes people remember the Brownfield man’s story and all of the other fallen soldiers who died to keep us free.
“They don’t do it because they’re getting paid for it, like a lot of money. They do it because they love our country,” said Audrey Morin. Her son, Steve, died in 2005 while deployed for the Army.
It’s something you might have heard of before: freedom isn’t free.
“They paid the sacrifice. It’s not free because somebody is gone from my family. There’s a hole in our hearts, so yeah it’s not free,” said Morin.
Gold Star Families hope you remember that sacrifice on Memorial Day.
“The reason they can celebrate and go on and have barbecues is because of these men, because of the men who paid the price,” she said.
For the past 13 years since her son’s death, she’s been honoring him by sewing quilts to give to veterans on the South Plains. With the help of a quilting group, they quilted more than 200 quilts and gave them to Brownfield-area veterans.
“I thought why not give them a quilt, so I started making them on my own,” she said. “I’ve been presenting them like four at a time at different events.”
And on her own, she hasn’t slowed down, knowing it’s something she can do to honor her son and the sacrifice he and others have made for our freedom.
“It makes me feel so good that they really feel so honored when I give it to them. and I just feel honored presenting it to them,” she said.
She has a list of veterans quilts she’s currently working on and hopes to have them all done by Veterans Day.
Area veterans groups are raising money to build a monument in honor of veterans and Gold Star families in Lubbock.
CLICK HERE for more information on the Monument of Courage and how you can donate.