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Frontline Leaders: Veteran-Founded or Focused Organizations and Small Businesses

Nine Line Apparel – Relentlessly Patriotic

In 2012, Tyler Merritt (U.S. Army, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Iraq and Afghanistan), his wife, Angela, and brother Daniel (U.S. Army, MP) co-founded Nine Line Apparel with the aspiration to inspire unity and brotherhood among all Americans as patriots under one common flag. Their business model is guided by three nonnegotiable tenets: respecting and honoring the flag as a sacred symbol; supporting those who protect us, emphasizing both foreign and domestic soil (members of the military, and police, fire department, or other public servants); and inciting patriotism as having relentless and unashamed pride. Over a million consumers proudly don their products, and they make it their mission to give back through their foundation, including building homes for homeless vets.

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