seal legacy event at belle acres
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power point presentation of SEAL Legacy event with Commander McGinnisTRANSCRIPT
Fundraising Event for
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Belle Acres , Charlotte, NC
POTTER & COMPANY
About the Foundation...The SEAL Legacy Foundation is dedicated to supporting fallen
and wounded United States Navy SEALs, their families and
other members from the SEAL community. As operational
deployments across the world continue to increase, the SEALs
and their families need support now more than ever. These
special operators, their spouses and their children all make
daily sacrifices to defend our nation. The SEAL Legacy
Foundation works to preserve the SEAL Legacy of NO ONE LEFT
BEHIND. The Foundation focuses support on Education,
Funeral, Health & Wellness, Living and Quality of Life expenses
for the SEALs and their families.
How this all came about:• The Glover family and the McGinnis family have been long time family
friends. They have many friends in common and the whole town of
Monroe seems to know each other.
• Our own Debbie Ashcraft taught Mark McGinnis in Preschool!!!
• Johnnie does the sales tax work for Fluid Flow and the McGinnis family
has been clients of the firm… for a very long time.
• Mark, child number 4 and son number 1, went off to the Naval Academy
to play football. The Glovers went to many Navy football games to
watch their local boy make good.
• Graduation time and the Glovers traveled to the Academy to see Mark
finish his time in Annapolis.
• Mark entered the Marine Corps as an officer following graduation and 2
years later became 1 of only 4 Marines to receive an intermilitary transfer
from Marine the the SEAL program.
• Mark successfully completed his training, and went on to lead more than
400 SEAL operations with a 100% mission success rate and zero casualties.
He has completed numerous deployments and operations throughout the
World.
• In 2002 Mark retired from the
Navy but was called back
from 2004-2006 and now
serves in the reserves.
• On December 5th , 2011, Mark
few of his SEAL brothers
established the SEAL Legacy
Foundation to help the
families of fallen and injured
SEALS.
• As of today 74 SEALS have
fallen since 9/11.
• Earlier this year Bucky asked
if we could do our own small,
local event and help to raise
money for the foundation as
well as ‘raise friends’ .
• Grassroots support and
awareness is AS important as
financial support!
• And so the first annual SEAL
Legacy Foundation
fundraising event was born
here in Charlotte!
The first annual!Belle Acres was THE perfect venue
for a casual yet awesome time!!
75 family and friends came out to support the Navy SEALS!!!
We were also joined by 2 special guests (active SEALS in uniform) but they were not REALLY there
and we could NOT take pictures so here is
COMMANDER McGinnis instead.
We had:• Great Food
• A few drinks
• Great fellowship
• A moving and GREAT
presentation
• Questions and Answers
• And……..
We raised $16,100