Residents of the Fountain of the Sun retirement community in Mesa often go the extra mile to show their gratitude to military veterans.
They stage elaborate tributes on special holidays, such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and find other ways to honor those who served.
One of those other ways occurred
on April 24, when Fountain of the Sun residents presented 13 heroes with Quilts of Valor.
Those were part of more than 269,000 Quilts of Valor that 600 groups representing 10,000 volunteer quilters nationwide have given to active military and veterans since Delaware mom started the effort in 2003 after a dream about son, then fighting in Iraq.