Since 1980, over 1,000 special operations warriors have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, including Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets and Rangers, Air Force pararescuemen and combat controllers, and Marine Raiders. When they died, whether in training or on the battlefield, many of these warriors left behind loved ones.
I have made it my mission to support this community through Operation Hawkeye, https://OpHawkeye.com, mainly using sports to elevate awareness of the service and sacrifice of America’s elite special operations units and raise funds to help their families.
This summer five of my baseball teammates and I have united around an OpHawkeye baseball campaign called STRIKE FORCE, which leverages our strikeouts to help fund participation by teenage sons and daughters of fallen special operations heroes (Gold Star teens) in programs designed for them by the nonprofit Gold Star Teen Adventures (GSTA), https://GSTAdventures.org. Approximately 130 Gold Star teens from across America hope to attend a GSTA program in 2016. Working together, we can help make their wishes come true.
Our goal as a STRIKE FORCE is to throw 130 strikeouts this summer, in support of these 130 Gold Star teens. Please join us in honoring the sacrifices of these heroes and helping those left to carry on by making a pledge per strikeout or one-time donation at https://pledgeit.org/strikeforce. The fallen deserve our gratitude, and their children our support. Every strikeout, every pledge, every donation, will make a difference.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Yours,
Will Thomas
Gonzaga College HS '17 | Founder, Operation Hawkeye
PS: this is my dad's account on HSBW
