Spc. Nicholas E. Wilson
March 11, 2005Freedom Quilts Heroes
Army Spc. Nicholas E. Wilson 21, of Glendale, Ariz. was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Casey, Korea. He was killed while conducting a roving patrol March 11, 2005 when the shoulder of the road he was on collapsed and his military vehicle rolled into a water-filled ditch in Ramadi, Iraq.
Freedom Quilts made this quilt to honor Spc. Nicholas E. Wilson for his mother Debbie.
Debbie made the trip from Glendale, Arizona to the Nielsen’s home to receive her quilt. She was welcomed to the Nielsen’s home where she talked about her son with pride and showed pictures of her hero son.