In 2003, around the time President Bush declared major combat operations to be over, Mrs. Lang and a group of military mothers pledged to provide a handmade, personalized quilt for the next of kin of every U.S. serviceman and woman killed in Iraq. It seemed like a manageable task when the death toll stood around 250.
But as of yesterday, with 1,874 names on the rolls of the dead, Mrs. Lang and the Marine Comfort Quilt volunteer group are struggling to keep their promise. “Never did I think that, 2 1/2 years later, I’d still be doing this,” says Mrs. Lang, the group’s founder, who sometimes finds herself in a panic at the thought she might have sent the wrong quilt to a grieving family.
Quilters’ Busy Hands Can’t Quite Keep Up With Deaths in Iraq (Wall Street Journal)
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