The 16th annual Swing for Soldiers Classic is taking place Monday at the University Club of Kentucky in Lexington to support wounded veterans and their families. The fundraiser was started by former NFL player Jacob Tamme and his wife Allison after they asked themselves how they could use their platform to make a lasting difference.

Supporting Wounded Veterans

Since then, Swings for Soldiers has partnered with Homes for Our Troops to support specially adapted home builds for wounded veterans across Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. This year’s event will help one veteran and their family with a specially adapted home.

Tamme said the event is about giving those who have sacrificed so much a transformative opportunity. The men and women that have gone out and sacrificed and have given so much of themselves and have had a life-altering negative event, we think they really do deserve a life-altering positive event, and that’s what, you know, we want this home to be.

Original reporting: WTVQ (Lexington) — read the source article.