{"id":59923,"date":"2019-12-18T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=59923"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:07:40","slug":"forrest-gump-star-gary-sinise-takes-1000-children-of-fallen-soldiers-to-disney-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/forrest-gump-star-gary-sinise-takes-1000-children-of-fallen-soldiers-to-disney-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Gump Star Gary Sinise Takes 1,000 Children Of Fallen Soldiers To Disney World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59924 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gary-Sinise-1000-Kids-To-Disney-World.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gary-Sinise-1000-Kids-To-Disney-World.jpg 828w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gary-Sinise-1000-Kids-To-Disney-World-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gary-Sinise-1000-Kids-To-Disney-World-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forrest Gump\u00a0star Gary Sinise has flown 1,000 children of fallen soldiers to Disney World.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, December 7, the actor who played Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump took roughly 1,700 family members to Orlando, Florida for a five-day, all expenses paid trip.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the Gary Sinise Foundation\u2019s Snowball Express initiative, which began in 2006 when a fallen soldier had written a letter wishing he and his family got the chance to go to Disneyland. And just like that, the foundation was born!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59925 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gary-sinise-disney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gary-sinise-disney.jpg 800w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gary-sinise-disney-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gary-sinise-disney-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today begins our GSF Snowball Express #14. Over 1000 Gold\u00a0Star Children travel with surviving parent or guardian, over 1,750 in all, via our travel partner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanAir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmericanAir<\/a> to Disney World as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarySiniseFound?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GarySiniseFound<\/a> Snowball Express program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvDfMhXXcR\">pic.twitter.com\/lvDfMhXXcR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Sinise (@GarySinise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarySinise\/status\/1203372568280887296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sinise took to Twitter to share pictures of the family members boarding the place. He also shared some video of him welcoming a child onto the plane, Sinise added: \u2018This charter left Los Angeles this morning with 91 kids, 176 in all, and I got to take these photos with them before they left. I\u2019ll join up in a few days. Have fun kids! We love you!\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This charter left Los Angeles this morning with 91 kids, 176 in all, and I got to take these photos with them before they left. I\u2019ll join up in a few days. Have fun kids! We love you! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jPRuZ0iuIp\">pic.twitter.com\/jPRuZ0iuIp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Sinise (@GarySinise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarySinise\/status\/1203372617501003776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Each December, the Gary Sinise Foundation partners with American Airlines to provide free vacations to families from across the US.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user wrote :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My niece and nephew are part of this trip this year, I\u2019m so grateful to your organisation. They are so excited and it\u2019s great to see them so happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Describing the trips, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.garysinisefoundation.org\/snowball-express\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Gary Sinise Foundation\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0says:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The holidays can be especially challenging for grieving families. Each December, we host a five-day experience for 1,750+ children of the fallen and their surviving parent or guardian.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a therapeutic retreat with a blend of fun and inspiring programs, these families can lean on their peers for support. And this year we\u2019re bringing Snowball Express to Walt Disney World Resort!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No matter where these families are in the grieving process, we hope to inspire them to believe anything is possible. By providing guilt-free fun and beneficial resources in a stress-free environment, we\u2019re creating a community to learn, grow, and make lasting memories with new friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How awesome is this!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrest Gump\u00a0star Gary Sinise has flown 1,000 children of fallen soldiers to Disney World. On Saturday, December 7, the actor who played Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump took roughly 1,700 family members to Orlando, Florida for a five-day, all expenses paid trip. It\u2019s part of the Gary Sinise Foundation\u2019s Snowball Express initiative, which began in 2006 when a fallen soldier had written a letter wishing he and his family got the chance to go to Disneyland. And just like that, the foundation was born! Today begins our GSF Snowball Express #14. Over 1000 Gold\u00a0Star Children travel with surviving parent <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":59924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2515,3078,89,1379,170],"yst_prominent_words":[17480,17481,17473,17478,17472,17466,17477,17465,17461,17458,17476,17479,17470,17474,17482,17475,17471,17485,17464,17484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59923"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}