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Gary Sinise

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1223 total appearances

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

It's supposed to mean you can't shoot at us.

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

Yeah, well, the Germans did that.

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

They started targeting the ambulances.

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

And the one in front of him got blown up and the one behind him got blown up and he was spared.

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

He just kept driving.

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

So he got very lucky during that.

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

I didn't talk to my grandfather too much when I was a kid.

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

He died when I was in my early twenties.

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

Of course, when I got more active with military support and veteran support and all of that, I started looking back at those days and just wished that I had been not such a dopey kid, that I actually paid attention to what my grandfather had done.

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

Thankfully, my uncle, this one, Uncle Jerry, he was on a ship in the Pacific during World War II.

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

He became a writer after he got home from the war.

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

And so he was able to get my grandfather to talk a little bit.

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

And he wrote down some of the things he said.

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

That's where I know about the story about the ambulances from my uncle just interviewing my grandfather and trying to get him to talk.

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

It might have been World War II.

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

I think you might be right.

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

No, I think Elvis was after World War II.

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

Well, let's check.

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

Yeah.

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

That beautiful little box in our pocket.