[Ciexyz]

I'm not watching Private Ryan, since I remember when the movie came out, a reporter asked Tom Hanks to pose in front of an American flag, and he refused. He wasn't a gung-ho patriot then.

I'm watching the JAG marathon on USA Network.

[Texaggie79]

Why, then, has Hanks put on this huge campaign to get a WW2 memorial in washinton?

[Arkinsaw]

I disagree with Hanks on most everything, but he has done right by the WWII vets. He stated that SPR was patriotic like Memorial Day is patriotic, not like 4th of July is patriotic. Both are worthy.

[gg188]

I have heard almost zero about it, but in the fund-raising thing done after Sept 11---the first one, I believe, with Julia Roberts, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and NO American flags or patriotic symbols---Hanks reciting the Pledge of Allegiance omitted "under God." That is unacceptable. But typical.

The things Hanks and Brokaw and others do to honor the WWII generation are just self-serving.

Praising the greatest generation, or building monuments to them just amount to LIP SERVICE when you consider that Hanks supported and contributed to Clinton and is just another one of the Hollywood far-left. Brokaw pays lip service to our parents, yet then spends his every workday preparing for his thirty minute opportunity to attack and undermine his nation and propagandize his left-wing beliefs.