Where Purpose Meets Patriotism
Honor those who preserve our freedom by investing in their future.
This Veteran’s Day event celebrates the extraordinary leadership and service of America’s Special Operations Forces while providing an opportunity for our community to stand beside them as they begin their next mission. They answered our nation’s call; now it’s our turn to answer theirs.
Golf Tournament
Play one of America’s most exclusive courses – historic East Lake Golf Club, home of the PGA TOUR Championship and one of the nation’s most prestigious and difficult-to-access golf courses, while supporting America’s Special Operations veterans. After the tournament, players enjoy the fireside chat amongst fellow patriots.
Fireside Chat
with Guest Speaker Jacek Waliszewski
After the tournament, join fellow patriots and members of the Special Operations community for an inspiring evening reception & dinner featuring a keynote speaker Jacek Waliszewski, a SOTF Fellow with an incredible story of his research uncovering the history of the first US Special Forces. This is a presentation you do NOT want to miss!
Guest Speaker Jacek Waliszewski
Army Green Beret, SOTF Fellow, Author
Jacek Waliszewski is an award-winning author and U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret who was only three months old when he committed his first crime.
He smuggled Solidarity paperwork in his diaper to Polish resistance leaders. His father, a co-founder of the movement, spent a year in a Communist jail before being given a choice: leave as political refugees, return to prison, or be traded to the Soviets.
He chose America.
His parents arrived with two suitcases, two toddlers, and no English. His father painted houses by day and repaired computers at night; his mother cleaned homes while neighbors watched the kids. Against every reasonable prediction, they built a life—and taught their son that freedom is never theoretical.
Jacek is the author of the acclaimed WWII thrillers CODE NAME: SPIKE and CODE NAME: TRIFECTA, stories drawn from real OSS missions, declassified histories, and the kind of legends veterans only tell after midnight. His work has been praised for blending meticulous research with raw humanity, capturing the gray space where ordinary people are forced to become dangerous.
A career Special Forces Warrant Officer, Jacek has served across multiple combat deployments and traveled to more than forty countries. His final mission to Afghanistan was documented in the Emmy-winning National Geographic film RETROGRADE, where he appears as “Chief Jack.”
Whether writing Cold War espionage, Balkan resistance, or modern war, Jacek explores one enduring question: Who do we become when the rules disappear? Some of his stories are true. Some are almost true. All of them are written for the reader sitting in the dark, wondering what they would have done.