Sgt. Josh Franks was deployed 3 times before being hit by an IED on his last deployment, thankfully, he suffered no physical wounds because of the amount of armor on his vehicle, but he did develop some minor headaches.

After coming back from overseas and going through some routine checkups, SGT Franks got some very bad news. Josh was diagnosed with an inoperable Brain Tumor that will take his life.  As you can see from the pictures below, the brain tumor has greatly affected Josh just over the past 12 months and Josh does not have much time left.

Josh had a wish that he wanted to come true and that wish is that he wanted to go to a Dallas Cowboys game.  So with a phone call from Josh’s wife to Operation Once in a Lifetime, Josh’s dreams came true this past Saturday by not just going to a Cowboys game with his wife, father and brother, but having a group of Marines in Dress Blues waiting for Josh in a lower level field suite at the game.

Thank you to everyone who supports Operation Once in a Lifetime and all of our Military Service Members and their families.

Thanks to all of our generous supporters, the goal of $101,000 was met by Wild Turkey matching your contributions.

Congratulations everyone! This will go a long way to helping our servicemen and women and their families.

We leave no one behind!

Introducing our newest sponsor, Wild Turkey, the Real Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Wild Turkey is wanting to give back to our troops in a big way and we would like your help.  Wild Turkey would like to raise $101,000 for Operation Once in a Lifetime and they are helping by matching any donation up to $50,500.  As of August 30th, 607pm CST, they have raised $27,394, which includes the match and they have created a counter on their Facebook that shows a live up to date total of the money raised for Operation Once in a Lifetime.

When it ends:

Wild Turkey will be matching donation till September 30th, so that gives just over 60 days to reach our goal.

Who it will benefit:

Operation Once in a Lifetime could help hundreds of soldiers and their families with a donation of $101,000 and help us open the Leevon Ritter Support Your Troops Resale Center located near Fort Hood Texas.  This center will allow the public and soldiers to donate their gently used items and when those items are resold all the proceeds will benefit U.S. Soldiers, Veterans and their families, but U.S. Soldiers , Veterans and their families will be able to shop in the store for free for needed items. Read more about SGT. Leevon Ritter who was killed May 22nd 2012.

How you can be a part:

Visit their Facebook donation page and simply make your tax deductible donation there.  After your donation watch the donation amount rise!!  If you do not have a Facebook simply make a donation on our site and check back the next day and see the latest update of how much was raised on our site.

A video note from SGT Patrick Sowers, Founder and President of Operation Once in a Lifetime.