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  • Help rebuild her
    • The Story in pictures
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  • Help rebuild her
    • The Story in pictures
    • The story in writing
  • Sponsorship

How it all started to crash and you can help rebuild her.

Job after job, rehab, medication and hospital stays.

A veteran tries to commit suicide every 7 minutes. I know because I was there once. But one day by accident, a friend and a truck ride took my pain away.  

Two years later it started with her.

This truck was the step I needed to adjust my battles with PTSD and alcohol. The hum of that big-cat engine kept me calm and away from the drugs. So I drove and drove some more until the pain slowly went away and over the next five years, my PTSD became manageable. Until it didn't!

You can trust the government, they say.

In the field on my face, out like a light and a dogs nudge that brought me around. What's this, Agent Orange stuff ? Hospital, drugs and no left lung and a truck I couldn't afford anymore. And they said the spray was safe.

She comes back

Selling her was one of the hardest things I ever did, My heart broke when I saw it was to an oil company who bought her. Every so often I would see her go by, and I had no way of getting her back — or so I thought. Abandoned, sitting in a field and a company named Manhattan changed my whole story. They gave her back to me.

My Mission was to rebuild her

Our story tells it all. A name tag that should not have been there after 20 years of neglect. A company driver with heart issues and a Vietnam veteran's mission to help save other veterans that might take their own lives today.

 This truck carries that message of hope — that God can save lives.

A company's false promises.

A truck show exhibitor at mid America saw this truck and said he would gladly put her together to help other veterans. He told us he could get sponsors that would put up the money and put her together again so we could get our message out.

 What you see below is what he left us after 4 years of lying. 

Why ?

Completely stripped down. Did he possess the capital needed to do this job as promised before this stage? Evidently not, because the cost for retrieval was $7,000, to bring everything you see below back home.

Here she sat, in the rain.

We now have a totally striped truck that will help no one. My message now is to see no one else gets taken by this company named Truck'n Awesome out of Texas.

Piece by Piece

Here is a picture of what we found and pick up in Texas.

Here is what we had planned to bring out to help drivers. 

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