Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker Trent Horn.

We have very special guests on the podcast today.

He is a award-winning actor and head of the Gary Sinise Foundation, Mr. Gary Sinise,

here to talk to us about his book, Grateful American,

as well as a new film coming out this week, I still believe.

So Gary, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

Great to be here in trend. Thank you.

So glad you're able to come.

And I really enjoyed reading through your book, Grateful American.

So highly recommend it to everyone.

I'm going to share a little bit of the book's description

and then we can talk about some of it related to your story

that some people may have heard about and others haven't.

So according to book's description, as a kid in suburban Chicago,

Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock and roll

than reading or schoolwork.

But when he impulsively auditioned for a school production of West Side Story,

he found his purpose or so it seemed.

Within a few years, Gary and a handful of friends

created what became one of the most exciting new theater companies in America.

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