(NewsNation) — Actor Gary Sinise, the “Forrest Gump” co-star and veterans advocate, has only recently begun talking about losing his musician son to a rare form of cancer last year but has some positives to share following the tragedy.

Mac Sinise was only 33 when he died of chordoma in January 2024. The younger Sinise had been diagnosed with the rare type of bone cancer in 2018, the same year Gary Sinise’s wife, Moira, was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. The dual medical crises necessitated the actor’s exit from Hollywood, he said.

“It was just a full-time job to manage the medical needs that they were both going through,” Gary Sinise told “NewsNation Prime” on Sunday.

Gary Sinise's son finished record before his death

While his wife went into remission, he said Mac is among the

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