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The Lt. Dan Band is an American cover band originally formed in Chicago in 2003 by Gary Sinise and Kimo Williams to perform at USO shows, entertain troops, and raise money for disabled veterans. The band is named after the character Lieutenant Dan Taylor, whom Sinise portrayed in the film Forrest Gump .
Subsequent roles include Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump (1994), for which Sinise was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in Ron Howard 's Apollo 13 (1995), Ransom (1996), Snake Eyes (1998), Frank Darabont 's The Green Mile (1999), Reindeer Games (2000), Mission to Mars (2000), and Impostor (2002).
Dan Choi (born February 22, 1981) [2] is an American former infantry officer in the United States Army who served in combat in the Iraq War during 2006–2007. [3] He became an LGBT rights activist following his coming out on The Rachel Maddow Show in March 2009 and publicly challenged America's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which forbade lesbian, gay and bisexual service members from serving ...
Dan Hampton is related to Wade Hampton III, a Civil War lieutenant general with the Confederacy; His maternal grandfather, Sgt. John Oscar Mullen Sr. (January 7, 1879 - February 28, 1954), was one of the Rough Riders who was injured in the left shoulder during the Battle of San Juan Hill; and Col. Daniel James Hampton Sr. (born 1936), who was ...
In 2004, Sinise started the Gary Sinise & the Lieutenant Dan Band [7] a cover band that has played over 500 shows around the world, visiting active-duty soldiers including Iraq and Afghanistan. The band has also performed for members of the military and their families to entertain troops and raise money for disabled veterans
Dan Goeb Patrick (born Dannie Scott Goeb; April 4, 1950) [1] [2] is an American radio talk show host, television broadcaster, and politician. He has been serving as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Texas since January 2015, under Governor Greg Abbott. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Patrick began his career as a radio and television ...
Born to American parents in Aberdeen, Scotland, [3] [4] Dan Crenshaw grew up in Katy, Texas. [5] His mother died of cancer when he was ten years old. [6] [7] His father, Jim Crenshaw, is a petroleum engineer who worked abroad, and Crenshaw spent time growing up in Ecuador and Colombia, developing proficiency in Spanish. [8]
James "Kimo" Williams (born January 8, 1950) is an American composer, musician and professor who has performed with a number of ensembles including his ensemble Kimotion and the Lt. Dan Band, that he co-founded with film/TV actor Gary Sinise.