{"id":358853,"date":"2026-06-13T04:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358853\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:05:18","slug":"oakland-woman-creates-american-flag-quilt-to-raise-money-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358853\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland woman creates American flag quilt to raise money for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A woman with the Oakland American Legion has been working on a quilt of the American flag for more than five months and is now raffling it off to support veteran organizations in the state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dawn Brasil says she was inspired to create the quilt dedicated to the nation\u2019s 250th birthday after discussion of a friendly competition with other legions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After beginning in January, any time Brasil could find was spent knitting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She is now selling raffle tickets for a lucky winner of the quilt with the proceeds going to Women Veteran\u2019s Glamping, Maine Veterans Project, and Maine Veteran Woodturners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She says it\u2019s critical to keep an eye out for veterans because without them, we wouldn\u2019t have our freedom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBecause our veterans are very important and I like to give back and it\u2019s going to go to a couple of donations and it\u2019s helping people out,\u201d answered Brasil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She says one thing comes to mind when she looks at the quilt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe love that went into it and the love that I hope somebody gets when they get it,\u201d said Brasil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brasil says she hopes to see the quilt go to a veteran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you\u2019re interested in purchasing a raffle ticket, she says to email her. Her email is Mainewolf123@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A woman with the Oakland American Legion has been working on a quilt of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,12659,47505,17825,47503,143,145,144,47504,47506,47502],"class_list":["post-358853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}