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No one deserves more help than the families of American soldiers that
have given the ultimate sacrifice. Please consider a donation to
Snowball Express or the Special Operations Warrior Foundation
have given the ultimate sacrifice. Please consider a donation to
Snowball Express or the Special Operations Warrior Foundation
The mission of Snowball Express, an all-volunteer, non-profit
organization, is to help create new memories and a few days of joy
for lives that have been shattered by the loss of their fallen hero. It
is America's chance to give a gift of gratitude to the children and
spouses of those men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces who
made the ultimate sacrifice since September 11, 2001.
airline of SNowball Express, more than 750 children and 360
surviving parents came to Orange County, California from all over
the U.S. and as far away as Italy, Japan, and the U.K. for the single
largest charitable gathering of these military children ever held.
organization, is to help create new memories and a few days of joy
for lives that have been shattered by the loss of their fallen hero. It
is America's chance to give a gift of gratitude to the children and
spouses of those men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces who
made the ultimate sacrifice since September 11, 2001.
airline of SNowball Express, more than 750 children and 360
surviving parents came to Orange County, California from all over
the U.S. and as far away as Italy, Japan, and the U.K. for the single
largest charitable gathering of these military children ever held.
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| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION |
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and
educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations
personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance
to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
History of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) began in 1980 as the Col.Arthur D. Bull
Simons Scholarship Fund. The Bull Simons Fund was created after the Iranian hostage
rescue attempt to provide college educations for the 17 children surviving the nine men
killed or incapacitated at Desert One. It was named in honor of the legendary Army Green
Beret, Bull Simons, who repeatedly risked his life on rescue missions.
Following creation of the United States Special Operations Command, and as casualties
mounted from actions such as Operations "Urgent Fury" (Grenada), "Just Cause"
(Panama), "Desert Storm" (Kuwait and Iraq), and "Restore Hope" (Somalia), the Bull
Simons Fund gradually expanded its outreach program to encompass all Special
Operations Forces. Thus, in 1995 the Family Liaison Action Group (established to support
the families of the 53 Iranian hostages) and the Spectre (Air Force gunship) Association
Scholarship Fund merged to form the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. In 1998 the
Foundation extended the scholarship and financial aid counseling to also include training
fatalities since the inception of the Foundation in 1980. This action immediately added 205
children who were now eligible for college funding.
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation mission is devoted to providing a college
education to every child who has lost a parent while serving in Army, Navy, Air Force and
Marine Corps Special Operations during an operational or training mission. The forces
covered by the Foundation are some 60,000 miliary special operations and support
personnel stationed in units throughout the United States and overseas bases. Some of
the largest concentrations of Special Operations forces are at military bases at Fort Bragg
and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Hurlburt Field, Florida; Coronado Naval Station,
California; Dam Neck, Virginia; MacDill AFB, Florida; Fort Lewis, Washington; Fort Stewart,
Georgia; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Little Creek, Virginia; Fort Carson, Colorado; Royal Air
Force Base Mildenhall, United Kingdom; and Kadena Air Base, Japan.
The Warrior Foundation is currently committed to providing scholarship grants, not loans,
to more than 800 children. These children survive more than 700 Special Operations
personnel who gave their lives in patriotic service to their country, including those who
died fighting our nation's war against terrorism as part of "Operation Enduring Freedom"
in Afghanistan and the Philippines as well as "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
To date, some 160 children of fallen special operations warriors have graduated from
college.
"I knew the people from the Special Operations
Warrior Foundation were always
in my corner ready to help."
-- Dr. Jim Lewis, son of Capt "Hal" Lewis (USAF)
who lost his life in Desert One in Iran, 1980.
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