{"id":16699,"date":"2011-09-11T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T22:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=16699"},"modified":"2011-09-11T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T22:10:55","slug":"sinise-reflects-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/09\/sinise-reflects-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinise Reflects On The 10th Anniversary Of 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gary Sinise<\/b> (<I>CSI: New York&#8217;<\/i>s Mac Taylor) posted a blog entry on the website for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garysinisefoundation.org\/\">Gary Sinise Foundation<\/a>, in which he recounted the events of 9\/11 from his perspective and described the profound effect that day had on him. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can most certainly say that what happened to our country on September 11, 2001 changed me forever. It forced me to rethink everything. What do I really believe? How do I want to raise my kids? What kind of example do I want to set for them? What can I do to give back to this great country I love? How can I use my good fortune to help?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was a turning point and marked the beginning of my quest of service. From my first handshake tour for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uso.org\/\">USO<\/a>, to forming the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltdanband.com\/\">Lt. Dan Band<\/a> to, most recently, establishing the Gary Sinise Foundation, I found that the more I gave, the more I healed. The efforts to support the building of two 9\/11 memorials, <a href=\"http:\/\/pentagonmemorial.org\/\">The Pentagon Memorial<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrooklynwall.org\/\">The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance<\/a>, were a special privilege. Throughout my journey, I&#8217;ve met so many extraordinary people that inspire me to continue to do more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read Sinise&#8217;s full blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garysinisefoundation.org\/news_events\/blog\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Sinise (CSI: New York&#8217;s Mac Taylor) posted a blog entry on the website for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2925],"class_list":["post-16699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-sinise"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16704,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}