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actor gary sinise, you may know him as lieutenant dan from the days of forest gump.4 he has actually been a big star on "csi new york" and last night that show started its new season with an emphasis on 9/11. >> it's a powerful, powerful episode, wonderful episode, one of my favorites that i've ever done in eight seasons and i was able to bring some of the wonderful family members, 9/11 family members of our first responders and some very dear friends of mine that i met over the years together at the wall on the day that we shot and they are featured in the episode as well and it's an episode that pays tribute to those that we lost on that day. it also looks at my central character and what he was doing the morning of september 11th, 2001. it flashes back to that day and takes place also on september 11, 2011. you go back and forth and you see what the team members were doing on that day. >> you're involved in so many projects but no one can forget lieutenant dan. ever since then we have seen you associated in so many different ways with advocacy for military vets. i

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since 2004, gary sinise has been on the hit show and when not filming for the series, sinise is on theeutenant ban dand, named for his character in the movie "forest gump and that band performs at military bases around the world and here at home. this week i asked him about the troops and the family members that he meets. >> these families are resilient. they try to stay strong through the difficult times. we have, you know, considered the 101st airborne who last year lost a lot of soldiers in their deployment to afghanistan. if you consider a military base to be like a small town, and it is like a small town, you could have 60,000 people, you know, soldiers and family members on this particular base. and if you have a base that loses 130 people, killed in action, and many more wounded throughout that year, that's a lot to ask of a small town. just kind of use that comparison and you'll understand just how difficult it can be for some of these military families to get through. but they, you know, i met extraordinary, extraordinary people that are staying strong through the difficult ti

i recently talked with csi new york star gary sinise for his thoughts on that. >> clearly, honoring thosen that day and remembering what happened on that day is very, very important. and you know, there is a new generation of kids that don't even know what that day was about. so clearly, we went through a big tenth anniversary moment just recently where there was a lot of activity around the tenth anniversary of september 11th. the opening and the memorial there in new york city. a lot of looking back. a lot of retrospect and everything. and csi new york, our show is based there. my character is a 9/11 family member. he is somebody who lost his wife at the world trade center and we thought it was appropriate to begin our season with, in tribute to what happened on that day and to take a look back and see what our characters were going through at that moment. >> you can see my entire interview with gary this weekend starting at noon eastern this saturday. he speaks more with the season premier and his work with the american veterans disabled for life memorial. >>> brad pitt's newest film "