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Gary Sinise

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1223 total appearances

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

And we ended up building a building.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

Are you still very heavily involved in that?

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

No, no.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

You know, I support.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

I support, but September 11th changed everything for me.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

I was in New York that year doing one of our shows.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

And it was a Broadway show, big hit, all of that.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

It closed about six weeks before the attack of 9-11.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

And

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

I was profoundly impacted by that whole incident and everything changed for me.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

I just decided that's when I got super heavily involved in all this and I didn't go back and do plays after that.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

That was the last play I did because I turned towards service and

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

volunteerism and raising money for our veterans and entertaining them and building houses for wounded, all these different things that we do.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

That became the mission.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

I ended up getting a TV series after that, which was lucrative and very, very good at the time.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

To have a television series right at the time that I was getting so involved in all of this was a great benefit, not only financially, but when you have a public platform like that, you're on television every week.

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

and it's a hit show and it's doing well uh i had a i had a megaphone i could get up and talk about what i was doing on uso tours and visiting the hospitals and talking about all that and it gave me a good reputation in the community and i got so busy with all of that i haven't been back to do theater since

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

You fuming okay?

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Gary Sinise Talks Forrest Gump, His Son Mac & Helping Veterans | Unsubscribe Podcast 257

Made that up.

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A problem in what way, Woody?