Garland recently gift Super Bowl tickets to Kami Kennedy, the widow of Captain Thomas Kennedy. Captain Kennedy died serving in Afghanistan in 2012. Kami is battling cancer but has done extensive work for the military community
One of those people Garland surprised was Kammi Kennedy, a mother of two who lost her husband, Major Thomas Kennedy, while he was serving in Afghanistan in 2012. She’s also battling cancer that has recently spread.
“In my husband’s memory, I do a golf tournament up at West Point, he went to United States Military Academy at West Point, the proceeds from this golf outing, I donate to Children of the Fallen Patriots, because education was very important to Tom, my late husband,” Kennedy said.
One woman who has given so much received the surprise of a lifetime.
Garland works year-round with a number of military nonprofits: Merging Vets and Players, Emory Healthcare Veterans Program, Shepherd Center SHARE Initiative and TAPS. He works with Pigskin Patriots to help raise funds and donate time for camps for military children and with Children of the Fallen Patriots Foundation on granting college scholarship funds.