Gary Sinise

So those were the ships that would roll in and the ramp would drop down and a tank would roll out.

LST?

Yeah, LST.

And so he was on...

He was on two, 811 and 870.

I have those documented.

And I got to hear some pretty good stories from him about what he had done because he wrote about his service a bit.

The family history is important.

It sets up...

You know, a lot.

And, you know, I'll tell you, but when I was a kid, I wasn't paying attention to any of it.

It all happened later when I started getting more involved with supporting Vietnam veterans.

And then I played the Vietnam veteran in Forrest Gump, and he was a wounded veteran, of course.

You were in Forrest Gump?

I was the guy with no legs.

What's Forrest Gump?

Before your time, I think.

even know you're an actor you're just really into the veteran community we're like we just heard really good stuff about you they said we should come over with cameras foundation raised 600 million dollars for veterans and thought he was a cool guy dang i had you act don't make me take you through it i had to throw this out there

The ride that goes to Mars.

as a uh as a kid i was just like oh wait hold on that's the that's the mission space guy so when did you go when did you go on that ride how how old were you oh man i was a kid i have no idea so yeah i did a movie for disney uh mission to mars about going to mars and when they were building the ride we had a great technical advisor on mission to mars uh