"I Purple Heart Oklahoma" Sweatshirt

The Purple Heart is not a love emoji. It is what they hand you after you take a hit in the line of duty. Which makes it the only medal honest enough for anyone who has done a tour here. You have sheltered in a hallway closet with a mattress over your head while the sky turned that nasty green. You have watched the temperature swing forty degrees between lunch and dinner. You have paid a toll to drive through wind that tried to merge your car into the next lane without signaling. And yet here you are, still ordering the onion burger, still yelling at a television on a fall Saturday, still saying the red dirt gets in your blood like that is a normal thing to say about soil. Wounded in action. Reenlisted anyway. Soft, broken in from the jump, and built with the kind of stitching that survives a wash cycle and a tailgate. Comfortable enough to wear through whatever the forecast decides to do next.