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 is called rise restoring independence, supporting empowerment that means we want to provide specially adapted housing for our wounded veterans. >> okay. >> mobility devices track chairs, that kind of thing. adapted vehicles. >> right. >> we want to do things to empower them and give them their independence back. >> that's very, very important. so you played an amputee in forrest gump. you got to talk to some the vets and you got empathy is that the word, empathy for them that you felt it was your mission to do this? >> partially, and i had been involved with vietnam veterans groups going back to the 1980s. so i had very serious attraction. >> what was it that