Operation Teddy Bears
Paloma Bilyk makes bears for the families of fallen law enforcement officers out of the officer’s uniforms. It’s mostly border patrol agents and their families, but she receives requests and makes bears for troopers, sheriff deputies, constables, policemen and military. She wants their children, spouses and parents to be able to hold on to part of that uniform that was so much a part of the person they loved. In the three years she has made about 250 bears.
