For the second straight year, Six Flags will host an event saluting men and women currently in the military as well as several wounded veterans and their families, according to Magic Mountain officials.

The Salute to Heroes Day event will be held in recognition of those people who have bravely served our country, at Six Flags Parks across the nation on Friday, July 3, according to Magic Mountain officials. The activities will begin at 9 a.m. at a stage set up near the entrance of each individual Six Flags park.

Six Flags is partnering with Operation Homefront, a national nonprofit organization which leads more than 2,500 volunteers who provide emergency and financial assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors, according to the Operation Homefront webpage.

Operation Homefront is “recognized for superior performance by leading independent charity watchdog groups, nationally, 92 percent of Operation Homefront’s expenditures go directly to programs that provide support to our military families,” as written on the website. Created after 9/11, the organization has provided more than $200 million of funding to programs benefiting military families.

“It’s always been family-focused,” said Jack Chirrick, retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer and executive director of the California branch of Operation Homefront. “As we have the service members deploying, we thought the best way to take care of those military service members was to take care of their families back home. So if they ran into issues like needing car repairs, they couldn’t make rent or anything like that, we took care of them. That allows the service member to focus on the hard jobs they’re doing overseas to defend all of us.”

The day’s activities will include the singing of the national anthem by Alesia Humphries, host of Studio Santa Clarita for Signal Multimedia. Six Flags will present a check to Operation Homefront, and each park will present five wounded Service Members, their caregivers and their families who are part of Operation Homefront’s Heart of Valor™ program with a gift package that includes Gold Season Passes and a VIP Tour.

“What Six Flags has done for these families is really given them the opportunity to just relax and not have to worry about the finances of it or anything else, which is a tremendous burden… This gives them the opportunity not only today, but the whole year through,” Chirrick said.