Tim McGraw plans on giving back…to our veterans who are returning home from war. He just announced that he will give away 25 mortgage fromm homes to vets at each of his concerts this summer. Wow! That is really putting your money where your mouth is!
Tasteofcountry.com stated:
Tim McGraw is giving back to wounded warriors and service members by launching the nationwide HomeFront initiative, a goodwill effort that will award 25 deserving families with a mortgage-free home at each of his summer concert stops.
“My sister’s a veteran of the first Gulf War. My uncle was a Vietnam veteran and my grandfather was a World War II veteran. I’ve always felt a deep sense of respect and obligation to our troops,” says McGraw, speaking on his incentive to give houses to those in need (quote via Green Room PR). “Being able to reward them for their dedicated work with a new home will be even more rewarding for us. It feels so good to give back to them, and to have the opportunity to entertain them on Memorial Day is something I’m honored to do.”
McGraw has partnered was Chase Bank and Operations HomeFront to launch the new program. ACM Lifting Lives — the charitable arm of the Academy of Country Music — and the Premier Group (on behalf of the North Carolina Furniture Manufacturers) have also made substantial contributions to support the program throughout McGraw’s string of summer concert dates.
The program’s official kickoff begins this week, as McGraw travels to New York City to perform a special Memorial Day concert for the service men and women in the city for the annual Fleet Week celebration. The show, sponsored by Chase and the USO, will take place at the historic Beacon Theatre and will be available via a YouTube livestream and on military bases around the world on the Pentagon Channel.
“We are grateful to our servicemembers, veterans and their families for their service and sacrifices,” says Frank Bisignano, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Mortgage Banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co. “We are honored to partner with Tim McGraw and Operation Homefront to award mortgage-free homes. It’s a small way to say thank you to people who have done so much to protect our nation and our freedom.”
In this day and age when we hear so much about the selfish and opulence in the entertainment world, Tim McGraw really raises the bar.
What a wonderful gift, not just for the veterans, but really, for himself. I know that sounds odd, but when you give in ways that change people’s live, YOUR life is better, and YOU are happier. I remember having this debate in one of my psych classes about altruism, and is it even possible to give and get nothing in return. Because when you give, YOU feel a sense of well being, it may not be a material “thing” you get back, but the uplifted sense you get is the reward.
Let me guess…which side were YOU on, Oh Mistress of the Road Kill Raccoon?
@Elena
In my limited experience, those involved in acts of altruism are not able to express the feeling they get from their experience because, at least in the English/American language, there are no words to describe the feeling without seeming to not fit. I spent 7 years as a hospice patient care provider and to say that I felt “good” about what I experienced seems trite. To say it was “rewarding” makes it sounds like I did something heroic or it provided me some material reward. There simply are no words–even animals engage in altruistic acts–a dog adopts a kitten or a cat guards a little bird–surely they cannot tell you how they feel about what they did. To hold the hand of a dying person or to change their soiled clothing has no reward; to be asked to do the eulogy for someone you may have only known for a few months because the family tells you, “You knew him/her better than anyone else” is so humbling that it can make you fall to your knees. Altruism is not a feeling, it is a state of being. It may be something like giving birth or a mother nursing a child but since I have done neither I cannot say. Altruism just is.