Hanks needs to read the book: “FLY BOYS” and then maybe he’ll understand the Japanese BUSHIDO bullcr@p that led to Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, etc.
As for his stupid claim that we wanted to “annihilate” the Japs; after Hiroshima and Nagasake we certainly COULD HAVE done it. Instead, we showed our hatred and revenge by getting them out from under their BS Emperor, setting them up with a wonderful representative government, and starting them on a path which led them to one of the highest and most properous lifestyles on the planet.
Real bastards, aren’t we, Tom. Methinks you need to get your own silk panties and stop wearing your wife’s. The pinch is making you cranky and blurring your logic!
Told Flyboys and Bataan Death March story today to my American History classes, also told the story of Mitsou Fuchita’s conversion from Pearl harbor attack leader to a born again Christian who spoke at Billy Graham crusades, in a public school no less.