Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.