The former NFL player whose home was broken into and trashed by some 300 partying teens held a picnic for veterans Saturday and to give the guilty students a chance to help clean the home and their consciences, but to his dismay only four of them showed.

Brian Holloway's Labor Day weekend was ruined when he got the call that his house in upstate New York lay in shambles, and immediately went on a crusade against teen lawlessness and drug abuse, posting photos of the teens on his website.

However, his cries for change fell on deaf ears after the August 31 incident that left behind up to  $40,000 in damages. Though more photos of the widespread damage have now emerged, few teens are fessing up to their crimes and some of their parents are even threatening to sue the former linebacker.

'I came back to clear my conscience, say "I'm sorry" to him in person, shake his hand,' Nelson (pictured) said.'I bought him an apology card, and gave that to him.'

The dismayed LA Raiders and New England Patriots alum told WNYT that he was expecting a bigger turnout when he invited the 300 teens to help him pick up the pieces at his Stephentown, New York home.

Holloway asked the students, who attended the party from neighboring towns for miles around to join him and a group of veterans for a picnic at the ransacked home, as well. Few took him up on his offer.

'That showing was a failing grade, but what we did was celebrate and acknowledge the four that did come,' Holloway told WNYT.

Two of the teens, 16-year-old cousins Mikaela Byrnes and Ricky Nelson, of Waterford, showed up to help clean the mountains of beer bottles, scrub graffiti covered walls, and clean urine-soaked floors, among other unsavory duties.

'I came back to clear my conscience, say "I'm sorry" to him in person, shake his hand,' Nelson said.'I bought him an apology card, and gave that to him from me and Mikaela.'

Nelson appears in many of the photos of the raucous event that were spread, mostly via Twitter, and then made their way onto Holloway's HelpMeSave300.com.

Holloway claims his decision to post the names and faces of the minors came from a desire to save them, hence the title of the website.

However, he maintained that his personal desire to put the partying teens on a straighter track does not mean they shouldn't be punished as well.

'They all committed a crime,' he said. 'There are going to be repercussions that will be significant for some and infinitely significant for others.'

Both Byrnes and Nelson said they thought the party was at someone's home whose parents were out of town and that they never would have attended had they known it was the product of breaking and entering.

Now, the teens who showed up say they feel a bit better for having helped clean, but aren't convinced it will help their reputations in the short term.

'I still feel like we're going to be harassed on Twitter,' Byrnes told YNN, 'but I guess we're not going to look as bad?'

Last week, Holloway tracked down hundreds of tweets posted by the students responsible and set up a website to share them - in the hopes the students could be saved from a life of alcohol and drugs, he said.

But some parents have failed to see it from Holloway's point of view and have threatened to sue him, even though their children allegedly inflicted at least $20,000 worth of damage to his home.

'You would not believe the calls that have come in, threatening to firebomb me or hurt or sue me - any manner of things,' he told the New York Post.

'Some complained that this will ruin their kids’ college plans. Others have threatened me, saying "Take my kid's name down or I’m gonna press charges against you."'

'You're going to press charges against me? C'mon, now. If that were one of my children, they would be doing a year's worth of apologizing,' said Holloway, who has eight children.

The next step for Holloway is a picnic for military personnel and their families at the property.

'I want the scar of this removed,' he told the Post.

There have not been any arrests for the break in and damage so far.

The house was targeted while Holloway and his family were in Florida. The area high schoolers broke into the house and with the help of Twitter quickly attracted hundreds of their peers from miles away.

‘So my apologies, I don’t really know what else to do,’ writes Holloway on HelpMeSave300.com. ‘ It’s been quite a gut shot dealing with all of this.  I guess I’m still in shock.’

Holloway decided to channel the shock into action.

‘But I want to aside the very strong emotions I’m feeling and focus on the one thing that is extremely clear the lives of these 300 students.  I want them to live. I’ve seen too many young people die because of excessing partying, drugs and alcohol.

He includes the faces of the teens and their social media screen names in an effort, he says, to teach them a lesson. 

News spread for several days after at least one teen broke into the house. Twitter posts show momentum building for the Stephentown party. 

Teens posted photos of their partying behavior during the party and then Tweeted about it the day after.

One teen wears a backpack with a sign that reads, ‘$2 cups for kegs.’ The same teen is later seen walking atop a kitchen counter.

While he’s turned the criminal part of the case over to local police, Holloway is now on a mission to save the kids who trashed his house and those like the, ‘300 dreams can be recovered,’ writes Holloway. ‘The 300 are at a key turning point, the decisions they made to commit crimes, drink illegally, destroy property, selling drugs and do drugs are dangerous decisions.’

Holloway is determined to stop the next party from happening.

‘We need to take a stand and respond as a community,’ he said. ‘The next flash party, I guarantee you, is being planned right now, and it's not going to be at my house. It's going to be at someone else's.’