mr. sinise. how many of these benefits do you do a year, do you think? >> oh, gosh.ney to raise at the foundation. weaver doing a lot of things, building homes and resiliency events. the band is part of my foundation. i'm doing various fundraisers and the band fundraiser. it's maybe 35 concerts a year. >> all right. so almost every weekend if you are doing 35. that's a lot. now, explain there is a foundation, i have a foundation named after my parents. you have a foundation. what does your foundation do? it it's a military support agency that's what it is. i have been involved with vets going back to the 80's. after i played the wounded veteran in forrest gump in the 1980s i got very involved. after september 11th we needed help with iraq and afghanistan supporting our men and women so i volunteered for the uso started going out there and a helping military charities like the independence fund. i got involved with them. >> with the track chairs and everything like that. >> i got involved with them in 2000 your foundation does what. >> one of the programs that we have

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mr. sinise with our traditional national press club mug. [applause] gary sinise: thanks. [applause] john hughes: those, of course, are very special, valuable gifts and you now have four, i believe, so you are working on the set. in the time remaining, i wanted to ask you. you mentioned you can use your celebrity status to promote these causes. of course, you keep working on that interview career as well. you have got a new series upcoming. tell us about this new t.v. series you are beginning. gary sinise: oh, yeah, the day job. [laughter] gary sinise: "csi new york" off the air in february of 2013. since then, i have been pouring all my energy into the military support, veteran support foundation, building the foundation. traveling around the country and the world raising awareness, and that kind of thing. but i was approached by cbs about doing a private for a new spinoff series of the show "criminal minds." we shot the pilot. it was an episode of the "criminal minds" series where they introduced a new team of the international division of the f.b.i. and the behavioral a

mr. gary sonny's. -- gary sinise. [applause] >> thank you. it's good to be back. i do want to say something last time i was here there was a medallion and on the back and about halfway through my speech and fell down. [laughter] so i'm glad it's not here. i would like to thank the members of the national press club. thank you for the invitation to speak today. it's an honor for me to return to speak since having first had the opportunity in 2007 as a national spokesperson for the american veterans disabled for life memorial which after a 16 year effort it was finally dedicated and opened to the public on october 5 at last year.

mr. gary sonny's. -- gary sinise. [applause] >> thank you. it's good to be back. i do want to say something last time i was here there was a medallion and on the back and about halfway through my speech and fell down. [laughter] so i'm glad it's not here. i would like to thank the members of the national press club. thank you for the invitation to speak today. it's an honor for me to return to speak since having first had the opportunity in 2007 as a national spokesperson for the american veterans disabled for life memorial which after a 16 year effort it was finally dedicated and opened to the public on october 5 at last year. the second time addressing the members of the press club was in support of the documentary film "brothers at war." and a third time as john said four years ago, when we first launched the foundation. so i guess i haven't burned any bridges at the press club yet. you keep asking me back. i would like to speak today about how far the foundation has come in those four years with the work the foundation is doing and what the future looks like a