Danny Patton and Lenny Bruce as Kenny Suggins perform a scene from “Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret” in San Diego in May 2023. The healing play that they’d made was very, very positive for them, and Scott did the exact same thing.” “Much like the guys back in Vietnam - the veterans that I met back in the ’80s who wrote a play called ‘Tracers’ because they were struggling with their own service and coming home from that war to a divided nation and a nation really that had abandoned them. “He was struggling, Scott, with … what did we do and why did we do it, and he was losing friends who were committing suicide, and terrible different things were happening,” Sinise told Stars and Stripes in May. Sinise had seen the film version of “Last Out” through mutual friend and songwriter John Ondrasik, better known as soft-rock piano balladeer Five for Fighting. So there was a lot of just heaviness coming out of that.”Īround this time, Mann got a call from actor, musician and veterans advocate Gary Sinise.
I have interviewed just hundreds of veterans - iconic special operators - and watching them weep in front of me and telling me that they’re never gonna let their son join the Army, and just the moral injury that I felt and so many of my peers who fought this war for 20 years felt and the families. “I was not in a good place … coming out of the Pineapple experience, and even writing the book (“Operation Pineapple Express,” published in 2022) because interviewing all of those folks that made it, those folks that didn’t, the veterans. “It was all-consuming until my wife had my best friends stage an intervention somewhere around October after the collapse, and I stepped away from it and got myself healthy again,” Mann said recently from his home in Tampa, Fla.
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