Actor Gary Sinise rose to fame playing the character Lieutenant Dan in the Oscar-winning movie “Forrest Gump.” The role popularized him with military veterans and helped inspire the Gary Sinise Foundation.
As a young man, it was Sinise’s connection to his wife’s siblings — who served in the Vietnam War — that first showed him the struggles military veterans deal with after serving.
“They had a really, really difficult time when they came home,” Sinise said. “It was a divided time in our country… it was just not a good thing to be a Vietnam veteran [sic]. It was a shameful time in our history the way we treated our veterans.”
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