West Suburban Foundation for Disabled Veterans

10/20/2026

☀️☕️ 🗞️Thank you Chicago Star Media and Crain’s Chicago Business Journalist, Candid Candace Jordan for your incredible promotional coverage of our WSFDV GARY SINISE “Graceful Warrior” book event on Monday, November 23rd at College of DuPage’s beautiful MAC Theater in Glen Ellyn, IL! 🤗📚🎭 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Please visit AtTheMAC or WSFDV to purchase your tickets 🎟️ 🎟️🎟️🎟️

We hope you will join us!

Please share & spread the word! 🗣️🗣️

Thank you for your continued GARY SINISE & WSFDV support! 🤗🇺🇸❤️

Actor and veterans advocate Gary Sinise discusses his deeply personal new book, Graceful Warrior, at a Nov. 23 event benefiting disabled veterans through the West Suburban Foundation for Disabled Veterans.

10/18/2026

☕️☀️🚨🎉🚨ATTENTION Gary Sinise & WSFDV Supporters 🗣️🗣️EXCITING UPDATE!! Thanks to the CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR SOCIETY, The 'Real' Forrest Gump: Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient from President Lyndon B. Johnson AND Gary Sinise’s friend, US ARMY Vietnam Veteran Sammy L. Davis and his beautiful wife Dixie, will be joining us to surprise Gary on Monday, November 23rd at our WSFDV book event presenting “An Evening with Gary Sinise,” Author of "Graceful Warrior" at The MAC Theater at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. 🎭📚❤️🇺🇸

We hope you will join us for what will be a wonderful, memorable experience. Tickets are selling quickly and seating is extremely limited so best to order your tickets TODAY on College of DuPage’s AtTheMAC link below

https://mpv.tickets.com/?orgId=50389&agency=DUPAGE_MPV&eventId=151367 #/event 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️

or WSFDV.org 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️

All attendees will receive a Gary Sinise pre-signed copy 📚📚📚 of Graceful Warrior: The True Story of a Son, a Father, and a Family Who Carried Each Other Through.

A special thank you to Gary Sinise. All proceeds from this event benefit WSFDV and disabled veterans in the community AND thank you to MOH Sammy Davis and his wife beautiful Dixie for helping WSFDV make our “Graceful Warrior” book event extra special for Gary and our guests.
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For more information please go to WSFDV.org
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Award winning Actor 🎥🎞️ and New York Times Bestselling Author ✍🏻 , Gary Sinise joins in conversation to celebrate his newest book 📖 release Graceful Warrior: The True Story of a Son, a Father, and a Family Who Carried Each Other Through. This is Gary Sinise’s most personal book to date. More than a memoir, it is a father’s tribute a remarkable young man whose, faith, creativity, humor, compassion and quiet strength inspired everyone around him. With remarkable honesty and tenderness, he shares the private moments that shaped his family’s journey through suffering, revealing the unexpected joy, deep gratitude and enduring hope they discovered along the way.

Please share & spread the word! 🗣️🗣️

Thank you for your continued Gary Sinise & WSFDV.org support! 🤗🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

10/12/2026

☀️☕️🇺🇸🎥🎬🎞️ On behalf of WSFDV, we are proud to invite you to meet Benjamin Patton & support and cheer on our Veteran/Family Benjamin Patton’s Patton Veterans Project (PVP) Short Film participants at our WSFDV PVP Short Film Screenings on November 12th at College of DuPage’s in Glen Ellyn!

Did you know College of DuPage this quarter has over 1,000 Veteran students?

Seating is limited so today is a good day to buy your tickets and secure your seats.

🎟️🎟️🎟️ Purchase tickets at WSFDV.org 🎟️🎟️🎟️

20 area Veteran/Family participants will be working directly with late General George Patton(s)’s son/ grandson, Filmmaker Benjamin Patton and Patton Veterans Project (PVP) Founder along side his impressive team to create 4 to 5 interesting short films to showcase, support, connect & continue to contribute to the lives of our veteran communities.

Benjamin Patton and his PVP team have worked with over 1,000 veterans to date. WSFDV is proud and honored to be collaborating with PVP to help support our Veteran community by way of Ben’s unique short film workshops and film screenings. Check out the PVP Team Bios attached.

A special thank you to the Gary Sinise Foundation for supporting this special WSFDV event & to the Judd Kendall Naperville VFW Post 3873 for hosting our WSFDV PVP workshop. 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Thank you to everyone for your continued WSFDV.org support! 🤗🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Please spread the word! 🗣️🗣️

10/03/2026

☕️📖 It is WSFDV’s honor to present a very special “Graceful Warrior” book release event with Gary Sinise on Monday, November 23rd at the College of DuPage beautiful MAC Theatre in Glen Ellyn, IL.

Let’s support America’s Military, Veteran, First Responder relentless supporter and friend, Gary Sinise, together, as Gary shares his personal family story and gratitude for his Gary Sinise Foundation service work and music to help get him through the toughest time of his life, losing his son Mac to cancer. The Official “Graceful Warrior” book release date is November 10th, his son Mac’s heavenly birthday.

We hope you will join us! Tickets are $150. This purchase will include a Gary Sinise presigned “Graceful Warrior” book.

Seats are very limited. Today is a good day to purchase your Graceful Warrior tickets at WSFDV.org 📖🎟️🎟️🎟️📖

For more than forty years, Gary Sinise has devoted his life to serving others, particularly America's veterans and their families. In Graceful Warrior, those experiences take on new meaning as he discovers that the same resilience he witnessed in wounded warriors was beautifully reflected in his own son. The memoir is both a celebration of Mac's remarkable life and an invitation for readers to find courage, purpose, and hope in the midst of their own trials.

Gary Sinise is an Oscar-nominated actor and has won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and two Screen Actors Guild awards. Known for roles in beloved films like Forrest Gump and Apollo13, he is also a New York Times bestselling author. Sinise has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has dedicated nearly forty years to advocating for America's veterans. He received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second-highest civilian honor awarded by the president of the United States to citizens for "exemplary deeds performed in service of the nation."

All proceeds of this wonderful event will support the mission of WSFDV.org to provide housing and other living needs for disabled veterans and their families. 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Thank you to Gary Sinise and to each of you for your WSFDV.org support! 🤗🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Please share & spread the word! 🗣️🗣️

09/25/2026

🚨🎉🚨On behalf of WSFDV, we are honored to partner with Benjamin Patton and his Patton Veterans Project PVP Team in the name of helping our Veterans stay alive and thrive!
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(Yes, Ben is part of our country’s historic General(s) George Patton Family. They are his late father and grandfather 🇺🇸⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

September is National Su***de Prevention Awareness Month, a dedicated time to raise awareness and help! WSFDV is helping! 🇺🇸❤️

WSFDV is hosting a PVP short film workshop in October for 20 Veterans/Family Members.

WSFDV has been looking forward to working with Benjamin Patton to improve the lives of our 🇺🇸 heroes through his unique short film workshop.

YOU can help too by showing up to support our inaugural 20 selected veteran short film participants. 🇺🇸🎥❤️

Please join us for our
WSFDV / PATTON VETERANS PROJECT
VETERAN SHORT FILM SCREENING. We will be viewing their 4 to 5 short films with Q & A’s led by Benjamin Patton. This will be an interesting and impactful evening for all!
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⭐️ Thursday, November 12, 2026
⭐️ 6PM - 9PM at COLLEGE OF DUPAGE
Berg Instructional Center Room 1437
⭐️ Tickets - $25 🎟️

Seats are very limited. Best to purchase your tickets today 👍🏻

⭐️Purchase tickets at WSFDV.org 🎟️🎟️

⭐️Please spread the word! 🗣️🗣️

Thank you for your continued WSFDV support and caring! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

09/19/2026

🚨🎉🚨ATTENTION Gary Sinise & WSFDV Supporters, On Monday, November 23rd WSFDV will be presenting An Evening with Gary Sinise, Author of "Graceful Warrior" at The MAC Theater at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. 🎭📚❤️🇺🇸

Gary went to high school at Glen Ellyn’s Glenbard West and MAC was his late son’s name..so COD The MAC Theater couldn’t be more fitting. 🤗🎭🌠

We hope you will join us. This will be a very special event. Seating is extremely limited so best to order your tickets TODAY on College of DuPage’s AtTheMac link below.

https://atthemac.org/events/an-evening-with-gary-sinise/ 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️

All attendees will receive a pre-signed copy 📚📚📚 of Graceful Warrior: The True Story of a Son, a Father, and a Family Who Carried Each Other Through.

A special thank you to Gary Sinise. All proceeds from this event benefit WSFDV and disabled veterans in the community. 🤗🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

For more information please go to WSFDV.org 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Award winning Actor 🎥🎞️ and New York Times Bestselling Author ✍🏻 , Gary Sinise joins in conversation to celebrate his newest book 📖 release Graceful Warrior: The True Story of a Son, a Father, and a Family Who Carried Each Other Through. This is Gary Sinise’s most personal book to date. More than a memoir, it is a father’s tribute a remarkable young man whose, faith, creativity, humor, compassion and quiet strength inspired everyone around him. With remarkable honesty and tenderness, he shares the private moments that shaped his family’s journey through suffering, revealing the unexpected joy, deep gratitude and enduring hope they discovered along the way.

Please spread the word! 🗣️🗣️

Thank you for your continued Gary Sinise & WSFDV support! 🤗🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

07/19/2026

Good Afternoon! Happy Sunday Everyone! The post concert work continues. On behalf of WSFDV, THANK YOU! Thank you to EVERYONE that helped make WSFDV ROCKIN' FOR OUR VETS AMERICA 250 a meaningful, memorable experience, especially for our Veterans! YOU ROCK!!

AND, YES! Gary and his Lt. Dan Band had such a GREAT time, we are already discussing a 2027 ROCKIN' FOR OUR VETS! ALSO, I will be sharing additional exciting WSFDV / Gary Sinise Foundation news this week!

Below is a 5 minute ROCKIN' FOR OUR VETS Recap YouTube.

As you saw, WSFDV ROCKIN' FOR OUR VETS AMERICA 250 event had countless moving parts. WSFDV would like to thank: ALL OUR U.S. VETERANS, U.S. MILITARY GUESTS - US ARMY, USMC, US NAVY,
SPECIAL GUESTS - BENJAMIN PATTON, CAPT. WILLIAM "HAWK" ALBRACHT & EX POW US ARMY WAR IN IRAQ JESSICA LYNCH, WSFDV ROCKIN’ FOR OUR VETS SUB-COMMITTEE, CANTIGNY & STAFF, GARY SINISE & THE LT. DAN BAND
HUNTER GIRL, DUPAGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE OF SECURITY,
DUPAGE COUNTY HOMELAND SECURITY, LOGISTICS, PERMITS,TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS, PRESENTING MISSION SPONSORS; CANTIGNY ESPECIALLY MATT LAFOND, MAGAN, KATE, CHRIS, JORDAN, JESSICA, DOMINIQUE, BRETT, WILL, FIRST TRUST AND, ROBERT R. MCCORMICK FOUNDATION, ALL VOLUNTEERS ESPECIALLY STACI & SCOTT BOYER, BRITTANY MICHOR, OUR FOOD & BEVERAGE VENDORS, ALL OF OUR GUESTS & THOSE THAT DONATED “TREAT A VET” TICKETS, EVEN ALL THE PEOPLE THAT TOOK THE TIME TO SHARE OUR FLYERS, SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, ESPECIALLY THE CALAMOS FAMILY, KEN WITOWSKI, DAVE DIAZ, THE ROSIE'S TEAM, VFW LEADERS STACI, SKIPPER & TARA & AMERICAN LEGION LEADERS STEVE AND STEVE. ALL SPONSORS, VENDORS, FIRST AID TEAM, ALL PRESS / MEDIA OUTLETS, CANDACE JORDAN, DIGITAL MEDIA CHARLIE WILLMAN, VIDEOGRAPHER KEVIN WILLMAN, PHOTOGRAPHY LISA KOYBENEC & AMANDA, MC STEVE CORVO, SHANNON ROVERS BAGPIPES BAND, AMERICAN LEGION POSTS 76 & 556 & JOINT COLORS PRESENTERS, NATIONAL ANTHEM SINGER US ARMY STAFF SERGEANT WILL MACARTHY, INVOCATION US NAVY NATHAN HAYES, SELECTED BENEFITTING COMMUNITY VETERAN FOUNDATIONS, A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALPHAGRAPHICS CHRISTINE FENNE, WHEATON WEBSITE SERVICES JIM KING & AI CONSULTANTS AT VELAN SOLUTIONS, DUPAGE COUNTY CHAIR DEBORAH CONROY & BOARD MEMBERS, WHEATON MAYOR PHIL SUESS & CITY COUNCIL, WONDERFUL WHEATON LION'S CLUB MEMBERS ESPECIALLY VETERANS BOB & DALE, ELLE, JONO, RAUL, FRANK, WSFDV BOARD MEMBERS, LAST BUT NOT LEAST OUR FAMILIES & FRIENDS.

Please continue to check into our WSFDV website as we continue to update the website, add our ROCKIN' photos, videos, and share upcoming October/November WSFDV Benjamin Patton PVP event & a November WSFDV Gary Sinise event!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Each and every one of you made THE difference! TOGETHER we made a lot of Veterans happy and will be able to help many more. Wasn't it SO FUN TO ROCK TOGETHER FOR OUR VETS?! TEAM WSFDV!

https://youtu.be/3biRCNmMRAw

Much love to ALL!! 💖
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07/14/2026

Thank you for ROCKIN FOR OUR VETS! 🥰
🫡🇺🇸🎸🎶🎂❤️🤍💙 More to come! 📸🎥

07/13/2026

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