Gary Sinise

I would say that that's kind of the family history that kind of laid the groundwork for me getting so involved.

But then there's a series of things that happened over the years that just got me more tuned up and more invested and more active with all of it.

We're over $650 million in the 15-year history of the foundation.

We're in our 15th year right now.

So started with one donor, and then we started branching just as the foundation got more

Busier and more well-known, people started hearing about it.

The donor base grew and we have a tremendous philanthropy team.

We're operating many different spaces now and so we're able to raise a good amount of money.

That's a fair amount there.

I would say.

So this is my grandfather right here.

Yeah, and he was in the army in World War I. He drove an ambulance in France.

So he, in fact, I have a, you can see across there, there's an album cover on the wall over there.

That's a picture of my grandfather on a horse training in Yuma, Arizona to go off to World War I. And he ended up, he was in the army.

He ended up driving an ambulance in France during the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne.

And that battle, we lost over 26,000 in that one single battle.

And he was back and forth from the front line to the rear, just taking the wounded back.

There's one story from my grandfather where he was in a convoy of ambulances.

They all had that red cross painted on the side.

I don't know why they did that.