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It's the American people that are

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paying for this concert today . They

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helped me do this all over the country

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on military bases . When you do

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something for somebody else and help

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them through a difficult time , it

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gives life a greater purpose , and I

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feel like I've had a lot of blessings

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in my life . I can kind of take that

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and shine a light on the people that

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are serving our country and do .

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Something to help them and that's where

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the Gary Sinise Foundation came from .

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Uh , most of our songs are all just

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hits . Everybody knows the songs and

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sings along to them . I wanted to put

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kind of a variety show together where

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everybody would just enjoy the music

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and be familiar with the tunes that

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we're playing . It's a great band . We

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play a lot of different types of music .

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As everybody knows , like Forrest Gump

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and Lieutenant Dan , you know , Dan

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Tucker out there and his role in that ,

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but bringing awareness to the Vietnam

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War and what the veterans dealt with

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after that to , you know , really

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hopefully bring them back up , can't be

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appreciative enough for them taking

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time out of their busy schedule to be

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here for a few hours here to celebrate

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with team shock . In just about every

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town and every city and every state in

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this country there's uh there's a a

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military family somewhere who may be

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going through a difficult time and I

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just always recommend people do what I

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did . I just reached out and tried to

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touch the folks and and help them

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through difficult things . I think if

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you reach out and support your local

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veterans , first responders , their

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families . You know , I , I , and that

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that's the way if every community did

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that in the country we wouldn't have

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any issues with , uh , our veterans

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falling through the cracks or anything

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like that so we can all do a little

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more to , to let them know that we

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appreciate the freedom that they

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provide for us and that's what I'm

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trying to do with my foundation and ,

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and just showing up on military bases

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all across the country .