Kandahar's Combat Knitters use yarn and needles as weapons of self-preservation
MAKING HER WAY: Lt. Cmdr. Jennifer Almy, a physician in the Navy, formed the Combat Knitters at a NATO hospital. (Courtesy Of Jennifer Almy Photo Illustration By Allison Ghaman/the Washington Post; Original Photos From Istockphoto)
By Dan Zak
Thursday, March 10, 2011 In the highlands of Peru, sheep are shorn. Their fleece is milled, spun into yarn and exported to a Seattle distributor, which ships the yarn across the continent to a knitting shop on North Fayette Street in Alexandria, where it is purchased in 220-yard skeins by a Navy captain's wife and her fellow knitters of Northern Virginia, who box the skeins into care packages and mail them 10 time zones away to a NATO hospital in Kandahar,
Afghanistan.
Attn: Combat Knitters.
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A friend of mine on duty sent me that link. We are all connected by the threads of our lives.
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