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Gary Sinise Hosts Virtual Snowball Express For Military Families

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Gary Sinise Hosts Virtual Snowball Express For Military Families

By Movieguide® Staff

Veteran actor Gary Sinise honored military heroes this year in 2020 fashion – hosting a virtual Snowball Express for the children of fallen warriors.

“With the support of our partners and sponsors, the Gary Sinise Foundation Snowball Express has been able to carry on a message of gratitude, remembrance, and appreciation for these incredibly deserving families. Our Snowball Express initiative provides an important space for these families to meet each other, connect, and through this network of support, they come to know they are not alone,” said actor/humanitarian Gary Sinise, the foundation’s Founder and Chairman. “We want to create moments of joy and new, happy memories for these families before the holidays, which is a very difficult time for a child who has lost a parent – and through this important GSF initiative we let them know that their loved ones – a mom or dad or a spouse who died in military service – will never be forgotten.”

The virtual celebration, which occurred the first weekend in December, featured well wishes from several celebrities, including Tim Allen and Mark Wahlberg.

“I keep you in my prayers,” Wahlberg said in his address. “Know that the family members you lost are always in my heart.”

According to the Associated Press:

The virtual celebration recreates two of the most moving and poignant moments of the in-person event, both of which serve as a tribute to the fallen heroes: the Remembrance Garden and the Walk of Gratitude. This year, the Gary Sinise Foundation created an interactive virtual walk-through of the Remembrance Garden with a flag representing the fallen hero from each of the 2,000+ Gold Star families in the program, providing an opportunity for the families to search and directly find the flag and placard honoring their loved one. The Walk of Gratitude is a ceremony led by Gary Sinise from Los Angeles and Mickey Mouse from the Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Florida, where families write a personal message to their fallen hero on a scroll, and the children then ring bells to send the messages, with the help of a little Disney® magic, to the moms and dads they lost.

Sinise regularly honors veterans through his Gary Sinise Foundation.

 

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