At one retreat, more than 1,100 Disney cast members greeted families at the gates. Children wrote messages to the parent they’d lost, rolled them into scrolls, and watched them sent skyward as fireworks lit up Cinderella’s Castle. Not many dry eyes in that crowd, by most accounts.
Is it completely free? Almost. Families still cover small costs like airport transportation and luggage fees โ the one detail the viral posts always seem to leave out.
Fourteen-year-old Georgia and eight-year-old Jacklyn were among the thousands who’ve walked through those gates with their mother, Corcynthia. For them, it was never really about the rides.
Nearly twenty years after one soldier wrote a letter he never got to finish living out, his small, unfinished wish now reaches thousands of children a year who are learning to carry their own loss.
What one man couldn’t do for his own family, an entire country has spent almost two decades doing for someone else’s.
Actor Gary Sinise took over 1,000 children of fallen soldiers to Disneyland, free of charge. .see more below๐๐
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