A Quilt of Valor, crafted by area children at Magic City Discovery Center in Minot, ND was gifted to veteran Rex Sisco by members of Peace and Honor Quilts of Valor at a ceremony at the discovery center, November 28. Rex is a 1965 graduate of Carterville High School and now lives in Minot, ND. He is the son of the late Rex and Betty Sisco of Webb City and Carterville, MO.
Sisco is a retired Air Force master sergeant who served from December 5, 1966-September 30, 1991. Sisco trained as a reciprocating aircraft mechanic, then retrained to ICBM Minuteman Missiles maintenance. He served in Thailand during the Vietnam War and in support of the Gulf. Sisco currently lives in Minot.
The mission of The Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. The quilt says, “Thank you for your service and sacrifice in serving our nation.” Veterans and service members must receive a nomination approved by the foundation to be awarded a quilt.
“We are all here because we are patriots, because we want to share the talents that we have with the people who are guarding our freedoms,” Lynn Heald, the Peace and Honor Quilts of Valor Minot Program chair, said at the ceremony. “Sometimes our quilts are given directly to a military veteran or service member, but our volunteers look forward to thanking veterans in person at ceremonies like this one today. We tell our veterans and service members, we put the fabric together, you guys are the thread. Nobody sees what you do, but you hold us together.
