{"id":9094,"date":"2010-02-15T01:46:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T09:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2010-02-15T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T09:48:10","slug":"sinise-does-what-he-can-for-american-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/02\/sinise-does-what-he-can-for-american-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinise Does What He Can For American Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CSI: New York<\/i>&#8216;s leading man <b>Gary Sinise<\/b> (Mac Taylor) makes time in his schedule to entertain the men and women of the United States armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/02\/sinise-performs-for-troops-in-arizona\/\">reported<\/a>, Sinise and his Lt Dan Band performed for service members at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona this weekend as part of a USO (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uso.org\/\">United Service Organizations<\/a>) tour. &#8220;I love my country and I know we are in dangerous times and it doesn&#8217;t look like these times are going to get any less dangerous as the years go on,&#8221; Sinise said during a news conference. &#8220;What would we do without defenders? They are the ones who sign up&#8230; to fight America&#8217;s wars. I just want to do what I can to keep them strong, keep their families strong and help them through some tough times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It is a good feeling to know you can help some folks out and play a little music for &#8217;em and make &#8217;em feel better,&#8221; the actor continued. &#8220;I think it helps them to know they are appreciated. The USO does great stuff. It&#8217;s all over the world and I&#8217;ve been able to travel to places most people never get to go and see. I&#8217;ve met extraordinary people on this journey I&#8217;ve been on to support the troops.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I love when they are smiling and are having a good time. That is my purpose. The mission here for us is to keep their spirits up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSinise stays busy as a full time cast member on <i>New York<\/i>, but he still finds the time to give back to the men and women in the military. &#8220;I just try to fit in as much as I can, and I know that people are in need of entertainment and support,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our military is stretched, and they are working hard and suffering in so many ways. If I can fit that stuff in between my television schedule and the family life, then I&#8217;m going to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI: New York&#8216;s leading man Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) makes time in his schedule to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2925],"class_list":["post-9094","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\/9094","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=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}