Gary Sinise
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I figured, okay, I got to tell them who I am.
So they called me back, and I started going on tours.
And I went on the first one to Iraq.
It was the first big USO tour to Iraq in June of 2003.
We hadn't sent a tour over there yet.
We'd just gone into Iraq in March.
Remember the statue coming down?
And that was in April.
And then in June, I was over in the war zone.
Yeah, this is before the insurgency and all that.
So this is just within months of us getting there, right?
Pulling the statue down.
We were in Baghdad.
We were all over the place.
And so I went over there on the first big USO tour.
And there were 180 of us on this tour.
Northwest Airlines gave us an airplane.
And 747 taking all of us over there on the plane.
Kid Rock was on that tour.
Leanne Womack.