Soldier Deployed in Iraq Comes Home to a 2010 Mustang
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Kory Chesher of Kentucky, a soldier currently deployed in Iraq, is the Grand Prize Winner in the 2010 Mustang Stories contest. When he comes home from duty in a few weeks, he’ll receive a brand-new 2010 Mustang and an all-expenses-paid trip to the L.A. Auto Show for the unveiling of the 2010 Mustang this November.
Here’s Kory’s winning entry:
It started when I was about six years old. I was in the truck with my father and we were at a stoplight. Across the road at the other light was this "car". It drew my attention away from everything else in the world. I asked my dad what it was and he simply said, "Oh, that's a Mustang." I remember it like it was yesterday. I now know that it was a 1968 black fastback. That was almost 20 years ago. 20 years of love, addiction, obsession. 20 years of longing and desire. Now I'm a soldier in the United States Army deployed to Iraq. I spend my spare time tearing through Mustang magazines that my family and total strangers are kind hearted enough to send to me. Every opportunity I get I'm online poring through forums and pictures; studying every little tidbit of knowledge I can get my hands on; meticulously memorizing seemingly insignificant trivia. Names, dates, specs, colors, paint codes, production numbers, costs, anything, everything. A Mustang of my own wouldn't quell this life I live; it would supercharge it. The only thing greater than a life loving Mustangs is a life with a Mustang. With a Mustang to call my own I could finally experience the pride and freedom that I have only been watching from afar. It will ignite a passion like nothing I have ever experienced. Mustangs are my one true love. I am ready to go driving now.
Congratulations, Kory, and welcome home!
Everyone has a Mustang story. Thanks to Ford, through the “Mustang Stories” contest, simply telling that story offered entrants the chance to win a 2010 Mustang, the hotly anticipated next generation of the American classic. Essays describing memorable Mustang stories were submitted by thousands of Mustang fans from across the globe. Some of the best can be read at www.the2010mustang.com
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