David Schuler organized this tribute to health care workers by putting out feed for his cattle in the shape of an electrocardiogram readout and a heart.
Nebraska rancher David Schuler says he has always been bored with straight lines and by coloring inside those lines, so to speak.
Suffice it to say, he’s creative — even if he’d never dare call himself artistic.
“If I took a pencil to a piece of paper and tried to draw something, it would come out as chicken scratch,” said the 25-year-old Bridgeport native with a laugh. “I’m just not blessed in that area.”
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Many would argue that point.
His online Christmas card, an homage to the health care industry — a drone video of 600 head of red Angus lined up in the shape of an electrocardiogram readout and a heart — has gone viral after being posted on Facebook on Wednesday night.
“It didn’t seem right to do anything this year without recognizing the health care workers,” he said. “It just seems like everywhere you look, someone knows someone who was in the hospital or has been affected by (the virus).”
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He has friends who are paramedics and nurses. And before posting the picture Wednesday, he sent it to them first — a personal “thank you” for a year that has challenged first responders and those on the front lines of medical treatment.
“I wanted them to know the meaning before it was posted on Facebook,” Schuler said.
