Operation Kid Comfort
Friday, April 27 2007
Operation Kid Comfort
Ann Flaherty with one of her quilts
At
the beginning of 2003, Ann Flaherty was facing the prospect of 3
members of her family being deployed overseas. Her daughter was in
North Korea, and both her son and son-in-law were heading to Iraq.
To
make things worse, her 18-month old grandson, Christian, was throwing
tantrums over his father's absence, even taking photos of his father
and hiding them under his crib.
Ann is a quilt artist so
she made her grandson a quilt with pictures of his dad. Then she made
one for a friend of Christian's whose parents were serving overseas.
That was the beginning of Operation Kid Comfort, which has now provided
nearly 5,000 free photo quilts and pillows to children whose military
parents are deployed outside the country.
