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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

To the young Tom Hanks, history was as dull as an algebra equation. For Hanks — a classic baby boomer, born in 1956 — World War II was just a string of long-ago muzzle flashes in black-and-white. Yet he did have a more direct connection to the global cataclysm. His father had been a U.S. Naval mechanic (second class) in World War II. But Amos Hanks wasn't the type to tell his son tales of bravery and sacrifice. "Growing up, I always knew Dad was somewhere in the Pacific fixing things," Hanks says. "He had nothing nice to say about the Navy. He hated the Navy. He hated everybody in the Navy. He had no glorious stories about it."

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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; idiot; revisionism; tomhanks
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To: brownsfan

“I will never understand why these idiots don’t keep their opinions to themselves and just rake in their money.”

It’s about wanting to be ‘more’ than an actor. Back then they enjoyed their careers, made their money, and knew they weren’t expected to run the world and didn’t care. These days however, actors portray ‘power people’ and want to be taken seriously, as serious people.


81 posted on 03/06/2010 2:04:40 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Mase

” the game Japanese soldiers would play with babies in China, the Philippines and elsewhere, by throwing them up in the air and trying to skewer them with the bayonet on their rifle.”

I remember hearing they practiced their swordsmanship on the POWS, but this is new to me.


82 posted on 03/06/2010 2:10:55 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: jimbo123

Tom, you f**king idiot. If you had any decency or desire to present the REAL history of the WAR in the Pacific/Asia-1932/1945 you could make a miniseries or an entire 2 hour movie of what the ‘’Japanese people’’,i.e His Majesty, The Emperor of Japan’s Imperial Army did to ‘’the people’’ of Southeast Asia and to Allied prisoners of war!


83 posted on 03/06/2010 2:19:34 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: GinaLolaB

“USS Arizona ablaze at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941’’. And with, 1,144 young men who never stopped being nineteen so Tom Hanks could grow up in freedom and become a stupid-ass, America-hating Hollywood douche-bag.


84 posted on 03/06/2010 2:23:36 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

or for that manner the on the Germans by the Russians- I want to thank you for that comment. Not alot of people realize what happened to the germans after the war... Many woman were raped and murdered and many starved.... To many it was “what they get” but they were still humans..


85 posted on 03/06/2010 2:34:41 PM PST by crazydad (What)
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To: digger48

Dougie took over American History magazine for a short time and instantly did a Reagan hit piece, followed by a glowing piece about the Hollywood communists who made a movie in Mexico, followed by a “riveting” article about Kerry in ‘Nam. It’s been years, but I’ve never purchased another issue.


86 posted on 03/06/2010 2:38:56 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Niuhuru
I've heard that the Japanese singled out redheaded allied POWs for especially brutal treatment. You didn't stand much of a chance for survival if you had the wrong colored hair.

Another macabre bit of WWII trivia.

87 posted on 03/06/2010 2:52:58 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter
And that many of the most sadistic prison camp guards weren't Japanese at all, but Korean.

Koreans were treated as second class citizens by the Japanese & played out their suppressed aggressions on POWs.

88 posted on 03/06/2010 2:55:19 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Jeez. Each time I hear about how civilized the Japanese are compared to us ‘barbarian’ Americans, I’ll remind them of Bataan. I heard once that sometimes the Japanese scientists would strap a soldier over growing bamboo and watch as it grew through the soldier.


89 posted on 03/06/2010 3:02:19 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: jimbo123

I don’t think Hanks realizes that if such people were ever to take power, Hanks would be first to be ordered to start cranking out propaganda films or get shot and his kids confiscated and sent to a more ‘patriotic’ family. In any social situation, actors and actresses would automatically be at the bottom of the barrel.


90 posted on 03/06/2010 3:03:48 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Cvengr

It wasn’t really until Midway that they were defeated, either. It’s an interesting perspective, that first 6 months of the war. Midway isn’t talked about enough as the first pivotal turning point, it was before El-Alamein or Stalingrad.

Prior to Midway, the Axis had won every battle.


91 posted on 03/06/2010 3:13:29 PM PST by BenKenobi (And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
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To: bootless

Just do a search on the terms “Jack Swigert Apollo 13 Houston” and you’ll find references to it.

It was never a big deal to Swigert or Lovell. They were pros and the mission was what was important. Hanks was probably only thinking about hogging credit because he was the star.

However, it is another telling example of the power of popular entertainment media to define people’s perception of reality, and to distort or falsify the historical record and mislead people. Do your own experiment and ask among friends and acquaintances who said that line. Almost without exception they’ll say Lovell and it’s due to the power of that movie.


92 posted on 03/06/2010 3:18:01 PM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: Niuhuru
You need to read The Rape of Nanking. This was just one of many horrific things the Japanese were capable of. I had two uncles fight their was through the Pacific in WWII. Like all my uncles, they never talked much about the war after it was over. They did talk more about it to my father just before they died and much of what they talked about focused on Japanese atrocities.

Reading the words of Japanese soldiers who participated in these acts is sickening but a must for anyone with an interest in WWII. Here is just a sampling: Link

93 posted on 03/06/2010 3:59:36 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: BenKenobi

almost...The Battle of Britain while not a turning point like the ones you mention was fought to maybe a stalemate. No one would call it a victory for Germany.


94 posted on 03/06/2010 4:17:49 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Same with the Coral Sea. Midway was the first significant victory for the Allies.


95 posted on 03/06/2010 4:21:07 PM PST by BenKenobi (And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
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To: edh

I agree.


96 posted on 03/06/2010 4:27:19 PM PST by GoldenPup
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To: skeeter
I'm guessing that Hanks believes that the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th 1941.

He's swallowed the Blutarskian school of WWII revisionism hook, line and sinker.

Which would make the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy just innocent bystanders, don't ya know...

97 posted on 03/06/2010 4:31:47 PM PST by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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To: Mase
From your link:

"We had fun killing Chinese. We caught some innocent Chinese and either buried them alive, or pushed them into a fire, or beat them to death with clubs. When they were half dead we pushed them into ditches and burned them, torturing them to death. Everyone gets his entertainment this way. Its like killing dogs and cats.

-- Asahi Shimbun, Japanese soldier, describing Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking.

98 posted on 03/06/2010 4:35:34 PM PST by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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To: Mase

I’ve read about it and what frightened me the most is how friendly the Japanese were until they started butchering people. Registering the females and then brutalizing all of them. I remember reading that they handed a starving child a candy bar laced with anthrax. Among so many other horrific things. I really can’t blame the Chinese for hating the Japanese.

I don’t thnk these celebrities understand that they would not be among the ones in power if a genuine fascist took over.


99 posted on 03/06/2010 5:25:36 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Poe White Trash
Asahi Shimbun is the name of a newspaper, not a soldier.
100 posted on 03/06/2010 5:40:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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