Gary Sinise
Appearances
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
You have a lot of veterans that served there that were really struggling with that quite a bit and have been. And we continue to provide multiple services on many fronts to try to help them and their families.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
brothers after war is part of our wellness program at the gary sinise foundation like jake said he'll be doing workshops with both movies he'll be doing workshops for active duty and he'll be doing workshops with brothers after war for veterans and we've had to expand that i said to him at one point jake you know what you want to expand this program but you can't do it all by yourself so we have to have additional counselors and additional trainers
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‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
people that can really train folks in giving them the tools that we're trying to give them to move on with their lives. It's all about moving on in a positive way. I've had this conversation with Jake many times. When I played Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump, the good thing about that story is that it's a happy ending at the end, right? You've got a guy who goes off to war.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
He's serving during a time of... conflict in our own country about whether he should have even been in the war or not. He has to isolate. He drowns himself in alcohol and disappears. But then, thankfully, at the end of that story, he's standing up again. He's making peace and he's moving on.
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‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
And that's the story that we want for every single person who goes and serves in the military and comes home from war and defends our country. We want them to be OK. We want them to move on. A lot of them. are struggling. So we try to provide as many wellness programs at the Gary Sinise Foundation as possible to support them.
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‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
And if we don't have those programs, we try to point them in the right direction. Jake and his films are a part of our relief and resiliency efforts at the Gary Sinise Foundation to make sure that if you go off to war, you go to serve your country, that there is a grateful nation out there and that we appreciate what you've been doing for us and that we're going to back you up.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
Yeah, well, you can go to garycinesefoundation.org. Or you can go to brothersafterwar.com. There you will find links to find theaters near you that the movie will be playing this weekend. You can actually go on to a link. Put your town or your zip code in there, and it'll tell you what Regal theaters it's playing in.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
And by the way, Regal has been just outstanding with us on this one, really supportive of Jake and the movie. They've got it in how many theaters this weekend, Jake, now?
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
It really is. And you can also go, you know, for veterans out there, if you're interested in seeing the film, the Gary Sinise Foundation has provided $150,000 to vet ticks. VetTix.com. We want veterans to see this movie. So we provided a grant to VetTix so that they can provide tickets so veterans can see this film for free.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
Well, because, thank you, John, because of the first film. In the days that Jake was making that movie, I had made a commitment to...
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
just do everything i could to try to help our service members out and i was trying to use the spotlight that i had on television with csi new york and some of the popularity of that to take that spotlight and shine it on what our service members and military families were going through
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‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
And when I saw Jake's movie, it was just so perfectly aligned with the messages that I was trying to kind of get out to the American people about what our service members were doing overseas and how we should support them and the difficulties of military, active military duty life. And that's what the first movie is about. So it was like this beautiful gem kind of came right at the time where
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
I was kind of that's my wheelhouse there. And that's why I signed on to help Jake and to try to do everything I could to draw attention to that first movie. And we had a very successful run, really, for a documentary of the first movie. Jake and I have talked about this. It got a theatrical run. It got DVD. It was on television. I mean, it really did well for a documentary.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
And as Jake said, out of that grew the workshops that he began doing on military bases all over the country, all over the place. Just thousands of service members have seen the brothers at war. Jake and I were talking at a certain point.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
probably about gosh it was pre-pandemic so it goes back probably five to six years now maybe oh even back to 2015 gary is when we first started talking about it and then we shot some of the scenes in 2016 and 17 and then it kept evolving it was that long 10 years yep wow i remember being in my office jake and you and norman were there and we started talking was that was that when it was was it that 2015
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‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
I remember the first idea for it. I was curious about what happened to the people that were in the first movie. And I remember asking Jake, how many of them had you stayed in touch with? How many of them are in the service still, out of the service? What's going on with them? And those initial conversations, God, if they were 10 years ago, that's amazing.
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
But that started the ball rolling and Jake started his wheels going and You know, when Jake gets going, it's a good thing. So we eventually we came to the realization that Brothers After War, which now looks at the transition from military service, active duty military, transitioning out of the military into the civilian world and the challenges that our veterans face.
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‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
That's what this second movie is about. My foundation is very simple. That's our mission, is to support the men and women who serve our country and our veterans and first responders, and to try to help them where needed. And that's why we decided at the Gary Sinise Foundation that we were going to sponsor the film
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
Because it was surely going to not only lead to some good things like what happened to the first film and the workshops that came out of that, but also ongoing support. Because I think the movie really speaks to that question of what is it like for our service members to come home and what can we do to support them?
Morning Wire
‘Brothers After War’: An Interview With Gary Sinise & Jake Rademacher | 3.1.25
Yeah, we provide all kinds of services at the Gary Sinise Foundation to just keep people whole. Certainly have been a lot of broken people over the years, you know, with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. and the difficulty there and 20 years of sacrifice and the Taliban taking back the country and young girls going back into slavery after that.