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How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief (Leftist rewrites history)
Time ^ | 3/6/2010 | Douglas Brinkley

Posted on 03/06/2010 10:05:05 AM PST by jimbo123

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To: jimbo123
USS Arizona ablaze at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941


41 posted on 03/06/2010 10:47:15 AM PST by GinaLolaB
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To: skeeter

But wait. It’s seared in his memory.

I really didn’t want to know how ignorant Hanks was of history. I know there’s a lot I don’t know, but please... And I really, really enjoy Apollo 13. (sigh)


42 posted on 03/06/2010 10:47:43 AM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (www.PursuingLiberty.com))
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To: Dogbert41

Tom Hanks would never do a movie about Unit 731 and the unspeakable horrors that were committed against civilians and POWs by the Japanese.


43 posted on 03/06/2010 10:50:09 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123
It is SO easy to be horrified when your sitting in your billion dollar mansions without having to think about WHO allowed you to sit there.

Go drive your Mitsubishi into friggin' wall. It is better than the guys that drove theirs into our ships.

Sorry 'bout that. /rant off

44 posted on 03/06/2010 10:50:28 AM PST by BallyBill (WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
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To: jimbo123

Those pictures broke my heart. As I think of My Seventy Six Year Old Japanese Mother, these hurtful terms certainly do not apply to her. I also think of my Late Father, who was American and how he stated that what was done then needed to be done to defeat the enemy. I apologize about being emotional as this subject matter is very sensitive to me. Lastly, God Bless the United States Military, as my Late Father served in it.


45 posted on 03/06/2010 10:53:05 AM PST by seoul62
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To: sanjacjake
Speaking for myself, all I ask it that the makers of historically based films try in good faith to re-create real-life events as faithfully as possible & I don't want them to sugar coat nor politicize anything. Its filmaking malpractice.

The worst example of this kind of revisionism was in the Bruckheimer film Pearl Harbor, a scene where Japanese bomber pilots were trying to warn away a group of little leaguers who'd stopped playing their game to watch the attack unfold. Ridiculous attempt to personalize the attackers and done only to make the movie more palatable to overseas audiences.

46 posted on 03/06/2010 10:57:13 AM PST by skeeter
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To: bootless; skeeter
I really didn’t want to know how ignorant Hanks was of history. I know there’s a lot I don’t know, but please... And I really, really enjoy Apollo 13. (sigh)

And yet, even in that, he deliberately and dishonestly rewrote history. Jim Lovell was not the astronaut who said "OK Houston, we've had a problem here ". It was Jack Swigart.

47 posted on 03/06/2010 11:05:02 AM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: jimbo123

Mr. Tom might want to look into what the Asian reaction was when Hiroshima & Nagasaki went up in smoke —there was open celebrating and joyous laughter throughout almost every capital the Japanese Army occupied.

The Japanese see things in hierarchical & racial terms, and they (correctly) believed they were the top dogs of Asia —they acted that way, too. In Japan, this means that the most powerful person behaves and speaks in a way that confirms that person’s position, and the lower ranked person also behaves and speaks in a manner befitting their low rank —this happens nearly 100 times every day to the average Japanese person. It’s so completely natural that it is not even contemplated. Didn’t bow low enough? Your mother or father (but later more forcefully your Judo coach) will help you out with that, yes.

Ever wonder why the US occupation of Japan went pretty smoothly...? It wasn’t only because their Emperor ended things, no. It was also because we had demonstrated that WE, instead, were the top dogs.

Nothing about Japan then or now really changed —there was just corrective action taken that brought perceptions into line with realities, that’s all.

It will happen again, although I’m not sure with the same happy effects as last time.

The only country that has similar racial/hierarchical views of things is probably Korea, in particular North Korea.


48 posted on 03/06/2010 11:06:37 AM PST by TokuMei
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To: jimbo123

Hey, Tom. Ever hear of the Bataan Death March??


49 posted on 03/06/2010 11:07:41 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: darkwing104
And his movies aren't historically correct either.

You mean his best friend wasn't really Wilson?

50 posted on 03/06/2010 11:09:55 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: jimbo123

Looks like Hanks is beginning to actually live the part he played in Forrest Gump. MEGA TWIT!!


51 posted on 03/06/2010 11:11:10 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: TokuMei

I forgot — Mr. Tom Hanks might also want to check into who in Nanking was comparitively merciful to the Chinese people butchered there.

The man was a NAZI. I’m completely serious —the Third Reich had a consulate there, and in order to see what was really going on there, the staff simply had to peer out of their office windows.

Legally speaking, the consulate land IS Germany, and so they were able to take into German protection several hundred Chinese peasants, and save them from rape, bayonetting, or 100 other bad things that went on in Nanking every minute for weeks.

The Nazi diplomat’s name was John something or other, and as punishement he was recalled back to Germany —the Japanese troops were Nazi allies, legally, right?

But much as it sounds like I’m lifting up Nazis, my objective is to give a comparitive insight over who was NICER —nazis or Japanese soldiers, and the answer was NAZIS.

Which SHOULD BE highly instructive to Tom Hanks. BUT I DOUBT IT.


52 posted on 03/06/2010 11:13:49 AM PST by TokuMei
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To: jimbo123

As far as I know, no Allie troops resorted to cannibalism. However there are confirmed cases of Japanese Soldiers doing it. I guess we made them “do it: according to Hanks logic.


53 posted on 03/06/2010 11:13:51 AM PST by JimC214
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To: skeeter
James Bradley mentioned a incident in his book where the Japanese lured a group of medics and a few marines ashore under the pretext of being cut off and wanting to surrender.

The Japanese butchered them

wonder if steven spielberg will mention that.

54 posted on 03/06/2010 11:30:43 AM PST by Charlespg
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To: sanjacjake
I'm sure it wasn't fun, but thanks for your service.
55 posted on 03/06/2010 11:32:12 AM PST by highlander_UW (Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
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To: Charlespg
The Goettge Patrol.

Bradley also mentioned what happened to a friend of his who was taken prisoner by Japanese on Iwo Jima.

Both sides were reduced to brutal behavior. The difference is the Japanese institutionalized such behavior, on our side it was an anomaly.

56 posted on 03/06/2010 11:35:48 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Lakeshark

Actually it is but her first name is Rita.


57 posted on 03/06/2010 11:40:43 AM PST by xp38
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To: Jim from C-Town

My sis-in-law is from Singapore. Her dad lost every single member of his family to the Japanese occupation. He only survived because he was too young to haul off to a work camp.

Japan did some truly evil things during WWII.


58 posted on 03/06/2010 11:42:21 AM PST by Betis70 (Never Forget)
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To: mrsmel
Even the left in Hollywood ion those days were at least patriotic (as far as anybody knew).

Only because Hitler double-crossed Stalin. If not for that, we would have had a civil war before going to Europe. Red Roosy would have kept us strictly in the Pacific. Hollywood was on whomever's side Stalin was.
59 posted on 03/06/2010 11:56:52 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: jimbo123
U.S.S. Nimitz in WW2??? LOL...Tom, uh, YOU are older than the Nimitz. Hanks is a pantywaist and his father should have been ashamed of himself for denigrating the bloody sacrifices of our brave men (including my beloved grandaddy) in the Pacific theater.

In the Hanksian school of history, America fought the Germans because they were evil rascists bent on the destruction of life as we know it and we fought the Japanese mainly because they're Asian. What a dumba**.

60 posted on 03/06/2010 12:01:12 PM PST by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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