Gary Sinise

And there were probably 5,000 or 6,000 in the soccer stadium.

And this is in the Balad area.

5,000 or 6,000 troops, you know, they're all out there.

It didn't feel dangerous to me or anything like that.

It felt like...

Okay, we're here.

It's November 2003, fairly early on after we kind of started occupying things.

We went out to visit some Iraqi schools that they had helped to rebuild.

I started a program after that called Operation Iraqi Children.

We started shipping school supplies over to the troops in Iraq, and they would take them out and give them to the kids.

put them in the convoys, roll into a sort of somewhat tense situation, just get out, started handing out stuff, and it changed the mood.

So that was a good program, and that started because of the November trip.

So I didn't feel – there were a couple times where it felt a little sketchy.

In the convoy, you know, just going down the road and stuff, you're kind of looking around, you know, wondering what's going on.

But we were pretty good.

Nothing happened.

And that was big.

Yeah.

Yeah, that night, because I was only there that one night.

Of course, the one night you were there.