Gary Sinise

But that is a happy ending.

And we want that happy ending for everybody who serves our country.

Well, my wife's two brothers are two different stories like that.

One stayed in the Army, career Army guy, Silver Star recipient in Vietnam, two tours in Vietnam, very West Pointer, high-profile guy.

Unfortunately, he got cancer in 83 and died of cancer.

but he was very very uh he profound impact on the army uh kind of person he rewrote the entire leadership manual for the army he was very invested in the army gonna have a career if uh he had lived he would have been a four star there's no question about it uh he would have been in the iraq war and

in Afghanistan conflicts, all of that.

He was that career army guy.

Then the second brother, the younger of the two brothers were the helicopter pilot who

who went in, he was like the second son, you know, the first son was, the father really looked to him as, you know, he was very proud of him going to West Point and all that.

The second son wanted to kind of, I think, be a part of that.

And so he joined the army, helicopter pilot, 800 combat hours, but it was rough on him.

Yeah.

It was rough on him and he came back and got out of the army and he struggled.

Still struggles.

You know, he survived.

He's still alive, but still struggles.

I mean, he kind of withdrew from life in a way and a recluse a bit.

And I think and for my other brother in law, who served in combat as a combat medic, he stayed in the army, too, after Vietnam.

And I think it was just easier for folks to come back from Vietnam and still be amongst their fellow Vietnam veterans who were still serving in the Army.