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Work for the foundation, to help support our fund-raising, our events activities, our awareness raising campaigns, all the different things we're trying to do to keep people focused on the freedom providers. we can never take for granted what they do for us. mark: you give concerts now, your band, is that correct? >> well, my band, i started doing uso tours, i would just go overseas and shake hands and take pictures and just sit down with the troops like this and have lunch with them, i just wanted them to know that somebody from the entertainment business, you know, who they saw on television...

Out to military charities all over the place, and trying to raise money for them in different ways. played concerts with my band. raise awareness by doing psa's, whatever i can do to raise money and awareness for other organizations so they can help more of our troops, i was trying to do, and all that manifested itself into the eventual creation of my own foundation. having been involved in gold star family initiatives, supporting our wounded, resiliency events, entertainment through the uso. all these different things. i wanted the foundation to kind of reflect all that history. we have sever...

My grandfather served in world war i, 100 years ago in france during the battle of argon. then he had three sons. two of my dad's older brothers both served in world war ii. one was a navigator in a b-17 bomber in europe the other on a ship in the pacific. my dad served in the navy. i met my wife, married her, her two bothers served in vietnam. sister was in the army. her sister married a vietnam veteran who was a combat medic in the army. they had a son who served two deployments in afghanistan. lots of veterans around me. that's where the veteran work began. then i got involved with vietnam ...

But what does it take to strengthen our service members? what does it take to let them know that we stand behind them, wherever they are? what does it take to bridge the distance and keep them connected to family, home and country? and what does it take to prepare them for their future, when their service to the nation is complete? what does it take to strengthen our service members so they can be the greatest force for good in the world? it takes a force . be a force behind the forces. share a message today at force dot uso dot org.