Tonight I received this message from From Posie, the lovely warrant officer’s wife.  It is a comment on the LOOOONG post but I thought I should post it here as some of you might miss it and I think you need to know how much people appreciate what we are doing.

Now Jan-Maree, at the wedding we attended on Friday, the groom came bounding over to say thank you for the quilts, at his own wedding, he made a bee line to thank you via me!! Then the bride came over & said thank you too, she was thrilled with the quilt her new husband brought home from Afghanistan. Then all the boys around me starting singing your praises, loving the laundry bags too, they were so proud of them.  thank you, love Posie 


Those were the quilts and laundry bags that the Gumnuts, my quilt group, helped me send last year.  They were the very original quilts and laundry bags  – the ones from which Aussie Heroes was born!


I suppose I should at some point explain why I call the Warrant officer the lovely warrant officer and not something more manly.  That could just be my sense of humour coupled with the deep affection I have for the SNCO’s I served with when I was in the services.  As an officer you learn to really appreciate your staff as they are the ones with the experience and the wealth of knowledge.   In most cases, the Warrant Officers are pretty tough characters, some can be down right scary and you would certainly tread carefully with them especially if you were a junior rank.  Even an Army Captain that I have dealt with since starting Aussie Heroes wrote  to me  “in my experience most Warrant Officers would deny having anything approaching a weakness anyway!  And glare at anyone who would suggest otherwise, officers included.”   Well, I am a civvie now so have nothing to fear.  I needed a way to identify him so that you would know who I was talking about and I didn’t want to have to keep saying the original warrant officer – I supposed I could have called him He Who Can’t Be Named but that has Evil Wizard connotations so the lovely warrant officer it is – and boy!  I bet he is glad he is anonymous! – well at least to most.  I guess the guys are the wedding know who he is but I don’t think they are paying out on him – in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t even read the blog because the lovely Warrant officer didn’t want to be found out!
 



I am going to try and start a new routine and each Friday I will show you a run down off all quilts that have been sent on their way.     So here goes for this week.

I am going to try and start a new routine and each Friday I will show you a run down off all quilts that have been sent on their way.     So here goes for this week.