Our mission as artists is to create art (film, theatre, books) which encourages and celebrates traditional American values and provides inspiring role models. A future project planned by The Chad Foundation is a documentary and companion book, entitled "Young Americans," celebrating young athletes whose lives were brief but vibrant and inspiring, cut short by conditions similar to those suffered by young basketball greats, Loyola Marymount University's Hank Gathers, and the Boston Celtics' Reggie Lewis. With an emphasis on sports, we feel this documentary will help raise parents' and the public's awareness of what can be done to prevent sudden deaths from hidden heart disease, such as having a defibrillator at every game, and making an echocardiogram standard in sports physicals. We also believe this film will help parents, siblings, and friends who have lost a child, brother, sister, or best friend, learn to heal and go on with life. . . for this loss is the most difficult thing of all.