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The beginning

That simple idea drove Roberts to start the nonprofit Quilts of Valor Foundation, chartered in Delaware. The project, now six years strong, has awarded thousands of handmade quilts to American troops.

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — In 2003, Catherine Roberts, a midwife by profession and quilter for 25 years from Seaford, Del., wanted to give a wounded soldier a quilt to bring him comfort during his recovery.

“Once I got the first quilt done, I had to find a wounded recipient,” Roberts said.

The first quilt went to a soldier at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

A Web search put her in touch with Army Chaplain John L. Kallerson, who “knew the power of the quilt,” because his wife, Connie, was also a quilter.

Chaplain Kallerson accepted the first quilt for a wounded soldier and “opened the doors at Walter Reed for our Quilts of Valor,” Roberts said.......

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