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Gotta learn to read ALL the posts first.

Happens to me all the time.. ;-}

Thanks for the link!

and a Heads Up to the local folk to a concert
April Fools eve.. for a good cause.

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More CSI NastYCar$ stuff..

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Sinise giving back to Virginia hero at M’ville
Actor helping raise funds to build house for wounded vet with concert, auction
http://www.nascar.com/news/120327/six-pack-of-pop-gary-sinise/index.html

Gary Sinise, accomplished actor, musician and grand marshal of this Sunday’s Goody’s Fast Relief 500 Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway, answers this week’s six questions.

1. Clay Campbell, president of Martinsville Speedway, wanted us to ask what you thought of all the pace-car laps he recently took you on?

Sinise [laughing]: It was great. I had never done that before. I’ve never been to a NASCAR race, or a NASCAR race track. I’ve been to a lot of places, but this will be the first NASCAR race I’ve ever attended. I’m very much looking forward to it. It’s going to be a great honor to be grand marshal of this Goody’s Fast Relief 500 race. I get to say, ‘Gentleman, start your engines!’ It doesn’t get much better than that.

2. Could you talk about the special home you’re helping build for Marine Corporal Joshua Kerns, a native of Patrick County, Va., and huge NASCAR fan?

Sinise: I partnered up my Gary Sinise Foundation with the Steven Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and we’re raising money all across the country in various communities where we have these various wounded warriors that we’re working with. J.B. Kerns is one of them, obviously. He was severely wounded in Afghanistan and has special needs. You lose two legs and an arm and you’ve clearly got special needs where your life could be better if your home was adapted to those special needs.

These smart homes that we’re building are specifically designed to fit the needs of these wounded warriors. ... So we’re going to build J.B. one of these homes, and obviously we have to have the money to do that. My part of the partnership here is raising awareness and funds, and I do that partially through a concert in the town or city that the wounded warrior is from and wants to live in. So we’ll be coming to Martinsville the night before the race and doing a concert at the high school, which was one of the biggest places we could find, to honor J.B. for what he’s given the country and to try to raise a substantial amount of money to help build him this special home.

3. Tell us more about the Lieutenant Dan Band. What kind of music do you guys play?

Sinise: We play everything. We’re a cover band. I put the band together to perform for our troops. I had some musicians that I played with, and I was going on USO tours and shaking hands and taking pictures and that sort of thing. After I did that about five or six times, I asked the USO if I could take the musicians with me and put on a show for the troops.

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Rock with a cause

The Lt. Dan Band will play a concert at Martinsville High School on March 31 as part of a fund-raiser for the construction of a specially-equipped smart house for Cpl. J.B. Kerns, who lost both legs and an arm in an explosion in Afghanistan a year ago.

Before and during the show, concert-goers will be able to bid on an amazing array of racing items, including the autographed rear bumper from Tony Stewart’s winning Martinsville car last fall and an autographed driver’s uniform worn by Rusty Wallace during his Last Call Tour in 2004. There will also be some non-racing items, including a script from ‘CSI: NY,’ signed by Sinise. All of the money raised from the auction will go to the house-building efforts for Kerns.