The Purple Heart Bus Project
Updated for 2018! The original bus was retired form service due to its age so we worked some more folks to add additional recipients and refresh the design for one of the much newer buses!
First of all I want to say it was an honor and a privilege to be involved in this project. Many folks came together in a very short amount of time to make this happen and the end result looks great!
The biggest thanks go to all of our dedicated United States Armed Forces who sacrifice so much for our country, our freedom, our way of life, and for their sacrifices for our allies. The 9 local medal recipients we have featured on this bus are just a drop in the bucket of those who deserve to be honored. There are so many who deserve to be honored but we only had a very short amount of time and space to work with on this project so a few were selected that would represent a broad range of conflicts and backgrounds, are true Midlands area locals, and with whom we could quickly get in touch with for the photography.
I'd also like to thank some of the others involved in putting this project together.
On the front end of the project -
Bill Dukes (Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army) - Mr. Dukes spearheaded this project and worked fast and hard to bring many folks together to pull this off as well as raising a minimal amount of funding to simply cover hard costs (this was not a profitable project for anyone involved, nor was it intended to be). http://www.bluemarlincolumbia.com/
Project Sponsors-
On the production end of the project -
SightLine - Design, printing, preparation of the bus and coordinating the installation of the wrap as well as the installation of the wrap.
George Fulton Productions - George was responsible for coordinating with the 9 featured Purple Heart recipients and getting us the incredibly good photography of them from the original design
Sam Holland Photography - Sam photographed the additional recipients on the new revised design.
Anyways - thanks to all involved and of course thanks to the dedicated members of our Armed Forces.
- Richard Larson
