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RiverKitty
06-24-2004, 04:21 PM
Just received an interesting e-mail from a friend....just thought I would share:
This Common Carrier brought us a frozen load of Gilroy Foods today. This truck was awesome. You can decide whether or not it is. Here is some info I took down after talking with the owner operator.
Their names are John & Amy Holmgren. They live in Shafer Minn. They thought this would be a nice tribute to the people that lost their lives.
It has every name of each person that lost their life on 9-11. This concept was thought up by John and Amy, and totally paid for by them. John says he will be awhile paying the loan off that he had to take out to do it but, thought this was the least he could do. Applied Graphics in Fargo ND did most of the work and Paul Kosenski did the Hand painting.
He said that he got to meet the Country Singer Darryl Worley, who Sang the song "Have You Forgotten" and has gotten pulled over 3 times by the police just to get their picture taken by this truck. (I would have pulled him over too!!)
He plans on attending the Mid America Truck show in Louisville KY in March. I thought our employees may enjoy seeing the pics. It is called the Rolling 9-11 Memorial, it has all the names of the people that were killed on that day and the flights they were on plus some other graphics on the side of the Tractor Now for the AWSOME PITURES ............
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http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/414911_3.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/414911_4.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/414911_5.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/414911_6.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/414911_7.jpg
Cheers ~RK :D

dmontzsta
06-24-2004, 04:23 PM
That is really awesome that someone put the money in to doing that, I think it is great. My dad was a trucker for 26 years.

FMluvswater
06-24-2004, 04:37 PM
That is a really beautiful tribute. I have to say that the sheer number of names on it has me in tears again.

welk2party
06-24-2004, 04:54 PM
I saw that on TV a while back. He has over a 100k in art on that truck. He said he and the wife used their entire life savings for the tribute. Hopefully Karma will repay him in spades.

Some Kind Of Monster
06-24-2004, 04:56 PM
Sent chills down my spine. Amazing tribute!