Tom Hanks 20-part WW I Documentary starts today - Memorial Day War Television events

History Channel ^ | 05/25/26 | Tom Hanks

[srmanuel]

After being involve with the production of Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Masters of the Air, plus starring in Saving Private Ryan, I'm looking forward to this documentary from Tom Hanks which begins today at 8pm eastern on the History Channel.

All Day yesterday off and on I watched WW II in HD narrated by Gary Sinese on the History Channel.

Additionally, this morning at 11am on AMC their Band of Brothers marathon begins, I remember when this premiered-on HBO right before 9/11 and thought it was fantastic, episodes 2,5, and 7 are my personal favorites.

Episode 2 - Day of Days - parachuting into Normandy on D-day

Episode 5 - Crossroads - Winters leading a charge in Holland and ending with Easy Company taking up position around Bastogne at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge

Episode 7 - Breaking point - Guarnere and Toye getting injured and Spears taking over Easy Company.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: war

[srmanuel]

It’s a WW II documentary NOT WW I, sorry for the typo.

[ComputerGuy]

The first rule of war is that young men die.

Henry Blake

[Az Joe]

Hanks is a liberal pos and should not be paid any attention to.

[Candor7]

The first rule of war is that those who serve should not enlist to follow the orders of idiots.

That’s why recruiting for the military is at an all time high .

And it is also why the NWO nations such as the UK, Canada, and France are in decline.

Thats the first rule of war. To not have to war.

[ComputerGuy]

I’m sure you know best.

[srmanuel]

Regardless of what he is, I personally enjoy the WW II productions he’s been involved in.

[Candor7]

I know nothing.

As Patton said:

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

And you say the first rule of war is that young men die?

I know nothing.

[ComputerGuy]

Henry Blake said that. I was quoting him.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

History Channel? Is that the Pawn Shop channel? Or is that the Sharks Channel?
As far as I know, the History Channel stopped history stories about 20 years ago.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yeah, Hanks is that Homo who does shows about AIDS boys in Philadelphia.

Not my cup of tea.

[albie]

Hanks is the wrong choice. Liberal bonehead. And liberal boneheads know nothing about economics or history

[unread]

Hanks is a liberal pos and should not be paid any attention to."

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Any history presented by such a (you word here) would be questionable. That's pretty much what's wrong with our schools nowadays..

[awelliott]

Hanks is a liberal pos and should not be paid any attention to.

Hanks has morphed into a complete libtard. Having said that, Band of Brothers is the best thing ever put on film.

Perhaps the blind hog will find another acorn, but I'm not terribly hopeful. I think one thing that kept him in check during BoB was that many of the participants were still living and, due to respect they commanded, exercised control of the narrative. No WWI survivors remain, so there's a much greater likelihood of the leftist revision that we've come to know and loathe.

[unread]

"History Channel stopped history stories about 20 years ago.

Sure did, and I miss it.. I still remember the "Great Violin Mystery", and there were other of note.

[equaviator]

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

He's right. Memorial Day isn't just for the KIA's. Some of our heroes made it out alive and did it again in Korea and Vietnam.

[unread]

Oops, out of curiosity, I just look that up. “The Great Violin Mystery” story was on Nova.

[srmanuel]

I don’t think him producing this documentary was a choice to use him, it’s his personal decision to produce it

[nathanbedford]

Perhaps we should be equally wary of paying attention to neoconservative revisionism. I refer specifically to the revisionist treatment of World War II and especially Winston Churchill's role in preserving Western civilization. If belief that World War II was a "good war" can be undermined it is an easy jump to convincing the unschooled that every war, no matter how evil the aggressor, is not worth fighting.

See the baleful application of this tendency in the public utterances of Tucker Carlson about World War II, Ukraine and Iran. Beyond expressing opposition to these wars, conspiracies are mooted by those seduced involving Jews and Israel, both of whom were closely aligned to and supported by Winston Churchill. These conspiracies are not only historically wrong but they are terribly dangerous.

To fight this tendency, despite his insufficient qualities on paper for the job, Trump has named Hegseth as Secretary of the renamed Department of War. War is indeed hell but worse is losing the war and doing so by fighting the idea of war with euphemisms such as the revisionism that occurred when the Department of War was called the Department of Defense.

Restoring the figure of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office is a step away from revisionism and toward confronting reality before it very unpleasantly confronts us.

[Chainmail]

"To not have to war."

How did the guy with "flower power" stickers on his VW bus get on this thread (on Memorial Day, no less)?

The primary reason that we are not required to speak German, Japanese, Chinese or Russian today is because young men did what they had to do to keep our enemies at bay.

Sometimes it required some of them to die or be horribly mangled and for their families to grieve for their loss. It is the reality that we live with every day and the only thing that convinces the real threats to stay away from our beautiful country.

The one thing you would have learned about our armed forces (if you had indeed joined) is that if a leader turns out to be inadequate (or killed) in combat, the junior troops continue without him and do the job. That is the American way of war.