Joe Rogan Experience #2579 - Gary Sinise
Actor Gary Sinise joins Joe Rogan to talk about decades of supporting troops and veterans, from USO tours in Iraq to his foundation's programs, plus his new book about losing his son Mac to cancer.
The gist
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Sinise says his wife's Vietnam veteran brothers and the September 11th attacks pushed him into veteran support, leading to the foundation he started in 2011.
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After seeing Iraqi kids sharing half pencils in 2003, Sinise started a school supply program that ran about nine years and that soldiers credited with saving lives.
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His Soaring Valor program flew World War II veterans to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, paired with high school students, and he urges visitors to go.
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Rogan reads a study counting 30,177 suicides among post-9/11 service members and veterans, about 4.3 times combat deaths; Sinise urges outreach and buddy check-ins.
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Sinise's new book, Graceful Warrior, covers his son Mac's fight with a rare cancer called chordoma, his death in January 2024, and the music he left behind.
"That's where our National World War II Museum is. Very, very impressive. Very special. Anybody who's going to New Orleans, I always tell them to go to the National World War II Museum."
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