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Untold hours spent on
Dickey exhibit
GREENVILLE – “This will be a powerful, emotional event,” said Garst
Museum Director Clay Johnson. He noted there was considerable interest
from the community; also regionally… even from out of state.
He added this was a project David Mangas, Garst Military Collection
Consultant, was passionate about. “He put in a lot of time preparing
for this event.
Mangas said Dustin Nealeigh, Nealeigh Design Group, has also been
working on the PFC Douglas Dickey Medal of Honor exhibit for months.
Time involved for the two of them? “I couldn’t begin to tell you,”
Mangas said. “I sat around for hours thinking about it. I had a rough
idea, but Dustin (Nealeigh) was the one who really put it together.”
Of the nine panels of the display, five of them had photos, a video and
correspondence about PFC Dickey. Across the top, from left, was a
replica of the sign dedicating S.R. 47 between U.S. 127 and S.R. 49 as
Pfc. Douglas E. Dickey Memorial Hwy. in May 2013, the exhibit name and
a ‘rubbing’ of Dickey’s name on the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. by
FM graduate Susan Olling...
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