fund and did a story on a quadruple amputee named staff sergeant john peck. and he told us about these incredible chairs. these track chairs. and he was like a kid at christmas time when he was given this at walter reid. they were giving away two chairs. and we realized there were 20 other guys who all wanted one of these chairs. these guys were just that s when i approached you. you profiled these guys. and these are life changing. sure. now a thousand guys had them. we just had the ceremony we gave away the thousandth chair. he we ll give away 1,000 more. if you hadn t talked with about it bill, it would have never happened. you and the guys who do it every day are the ones who deserve the credit. you are healthy and doing good for a lot of people and you are a great correspondent, thank you for talking to us, jennifer. thank you. did you know that. i, your humble correspondent used to paint houses and
we have thousands of wounded out there. so we just try to we started when i did a concert years ago for quadruple amputee, the first one to survive that injury. since that time we ve had four additional quadruple amputees. four are in houses now. we have another one that we re building for next year. can you imagine that? i started with just very, very badly injured folks. december 13, snowball express is for children of fallen service members. important, and also you ll play the armed forces bowl in dallas in january 2. you re busy. yeah. like i said, it s full time. it takes a lot of fundraising to put up the money to play for the kids and that kind of thing. gary sinise foundation is where we re focused all my energy now. where is your web site so people can help? garysinisefoundation.org. we have a lot of need in the
help them to look beautiful for the night. everyone looks amazing. what woman doesn t love fashion? it looks like the evening is going to be amazing. i think i did really good job. i m not used to seeing her like this on a daily basis. this just makes me night probably about 100% more better. my wife is so pretty but she always is. she went to the beauty shop but she s always pretty. she looks phenomenal. she looks amazing. haven t seen her all day. i think she looks fantastic. all the time. this is what our country s all about. these young men putting their themselves in harm s way far our every day freedoms. that s what it s all about. one of the husbands, a quadruple amputee, was honored at the fashion show where the models were all active duty troops or veterans. it was organized by the non-profit luke s wings. in case you are wondering, the. women got to keep those designer
none of none of the other boys but is willing to do everything he can to help them. what does it mean to you? having your own home? it s going to be back to normal again. it s what it all is for. been a long road, right? very long road. and sinise recruit bid a foundation in honor of his brother, steven, a new york fire fighter who ran a mile to the world trade center in full gear, one of 443 killed. the decided to build the first house for the first quadruple amputee. i knew gary sinise had a band. i know what it does for the military. soy asked him if he can do a
is so willing to do everything he can to help them. it is truly amazing. what does it mean to you in terms of having your own home being able to be on your own, independent as a result of this? it is going to be back to normal that s what it is all before. been a long road? oh, yeah. very long road. sinise was krrecruited by frk filler in honor of his brother steven the new york firefighter who famously ran a mile from the brooklyn-battery tunnel to the world trade center in full year on 9-11. steven was one of 343 firefighters killed in the collapse. years ago decided we were going to build the first house for the first quadruple amputee first ever to he survive any war. i knew gary sinise had a band and i knew what he does for our military. i asked the commissioner to call