{"id":4065,"date":"2016-05-26T07:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2016-05-26T07:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:24:56","slug":"freedom-star-united-loves-our-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/26\/freedom-star-united-loves-our-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Star United Loves Our Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Deb and Duane Granger are patriotic. Their company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomstarunited.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freedom Star United<\/a>, focuses on military and patriotic quilt fabric, kits, and patterns. Two of their sons and one daughter-in-law have served in the Marines. Patriotism is \u201cnear and dear to their hearts.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/veterans-are-a-welcome-sight-at-road\/attachment\/202\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4061\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/202-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"202\" width=\"558\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a>\nThe Grangers are on the road most of the year, attending 30-35 quilt shows a year. \u201cRoad to California is our favorite,\u201d said Deb. \u201cThe people are great.\u201d Wherever they go, they look for a veteran to give a patriotic quilt to. Deb remarked, \u201cOur hearts are with the military.\u201d\nAt Road 2016, Deb and Duane spotted 88 year old Morrie Hegg from Apple Valley and presented him with one of their patriotic themed quilts. Mr. Hegg is a World War II veteran, having served in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Air Force Army Air Corp in Alaska. He came to Road with his wife and daughter who are both quilters. This was their 15th year at Road. They come in an RV and park near the Ontario Convention Center. Mr. Hegg says he joins his wife and daughter to \u201ccarry their stuff.\u201d Needless to say, the Hegg family was \u201cblown away\u201d with their gift from Freedom Star.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/veterans-are-a-welcome-sight-at-road\/attachment\/201\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4060\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/201-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"201\" width=\"556\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a>\nThank you Morrie Hegg for your service and to the Grangers and Freedom Star for your support of our veterans.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[438,743,887,1360],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2016","tag-freedom-star-united","tag-memorial-day","tag-patriotic-quilts","tag-veterans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}