HELLO EVERYONE,

I’m in the country of Georgia. It’s a former Soviet State that last
year was attacked by it’s former occupiers, Russia. The story I’m here
telling is about that war, but I think it’s a war that has a greater
purpose.

It’s about a little country fighting to be free. It’s about how a group
of outsiders fought hard to get the truth out to the world, about what
horrors were happening during the invasion.

Eventually the message got out and Georgia’s freedom was preserved.
I was offered the film about a month ago and wasn’t certain whether I
could make the TACA event. I tried hard to create a window so I could
get out. However, this film is massive with locations, military and thousands of extras.

Traveling here is very difficult and limited...it
takes two or more days from Los Angeles. So production wasn’t able to
make that window of availability happen.

I was so passionate about hosting the event and helping to create a
fund-raiser that would help bring backing and support, but also help
spread awareness to the hope TACA brings.

In this film I’m a soldier of Georgia, battling the much bigger and
more powerful Russian army, but I do so with the same three principles
that TACA inspired in me. Hope, Faith and Recovery.

I’ve learned over the last several months what strength and courage really is from the
TACA’s mothers and fathers fighting for their children and other
children diagnosed with autism.

I have faith that TACA will one day win this war against Autism. It’s a
war that people need to know the truth about. I have hope that new
families will find TACA and they can start speeding up the recovery
process.

I know my co -host Clifton Collins will make a wonderful and dynamic
host. He will bring all the grace and charm that his grandfather, Pedro
Gonzalez Gonzalez, brought with him years before. He has always been an
inspiration to me and I’m glad he is there to take the lead at this event.

I’m honored to be a friend of TACA and as deeply saddened that I can not
physically attend. I am there in spirit with all of you.

May God be with you, Johnathon Schaech