What's become known as the "Comfort Quilt" is being handed from Orlando to another city that needs comfort.

  • Orlando, Orange County leaders present Las Vegas with 'Comfort Quilt'
  • Quilt was made by Ohio schoolchildren after 9/11 attacks
  • Quilt symbolizes unity, caring, warmth and love

The quilt is being presented to Las Vegas after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

It's hard to lose the memories of the Las Vegas massacre and the 58 people who died and the hundreds of others were injured. You also can't forget the words, "We are thankful, we are blessed," which have appeared on the comfort quilt for years.

"It symbolizes caring, warmth, letting folks know that they're not alone, that we understand and that we're praying for them and that we love them and we support them," Orange County Vice Mayor Victoria Siplin said Tuesday.

Elementary school kids in Ohio made the quilt right after the 9/11 attacks for children who were the same age and needed comfort after losing family members.

The quilt has been to many places since then, and now it goes from Orlando to Vegas — along with a signed banner from the city.

"Love always conquers hate; we're living proof of that," Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs said. "And (we want) to share with them our experience of strength, and unity and resilience."

It's also to let the people of Las Vegas know that they, as Jacobs put it, are strong and united, too.

The banner that's going with the quilt was signed by the Central Florida LGBT community, and it will soon have the signatures of the Orange County Commission.