"I Purple Heart South Dakota" Tee

The Purple Heart is for people who took damage and kept going, which makes it the only honest way to say you love South Dakota. You have survived a wind chill that doesn't legally count as a temperature, a blizzard in April, and a two hour drive where the only landmark was a billboard promising free ice water in roughly 180 miles. You have eaten cubes of mystery meat off a skewer at a gas station and called it a food group. You have been wounded in action and you came back for seconds. This shirt is for the ones who stayed, the ones who left and still defend it at parties, and the ones who think a 30 degree February day is shorts weather. It's a scar you wear on purpose. Soft, broken in from the first wear, and built with the kind of stitching that survives a winter wardrobe rotation. The print won't crack, flake, or fade into a sad gray smudge, so your battle wound stays visible for years.