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Members of the 501st and Rebel Legion helped celebrate a very special birthday with Jadon on June 30th in Olathe, KS. Jadon has SMA is the spirit behind Jadon's Hope Foundation. SMA is an inherited disease in which the children are not able to build muscle effectively. The disease affects the motor neurons which allow the brain to communicate with the muscles and tell them to grow. The children are born perfectly healthy but then begin to loose muscle tone, strength, and control. The muscles closest to the trunk are affected first and most severely. This lack of muscle growth will most often affect crawling, walking, head control, as well as swallowing. As the disease progresses it typically affects breathing, swallowing, and coughing. Those in attendance included: Nate Lesan (TK), Bennett Gladden (TK), Travis Macken (TK), Kyle Detrick (Jedi Knight), Lianne Marie (Photographer/Handler), and William C Holmes (Imperial Gunner).