KYLE – Come April 6, Operation: Hats Off for Veterans will be celebrating 20 years of raising funds to support veterans in achieving their goals.
Founded in 2005 and coordinated by Lisa Adams, the event was originally called Hats Off For Hospice, which had a goal of fulfilling local hospice patients’ end-of-life wishes. Due to the support of the community, several came true from hot air balloon rides to family portraits to fancy meals that never seemed possible and even playing with the band again.
“We had a lady who'd never eaten lobster ever. She'd never had a lobster and she would say to us, ‘That was rich people's food,” Adams, the CEO of the operation, said. “We had an executive chef come into her little, tiny apartment and cook her the biggest lobster you could possibly imagine on a plate.”
