[La Lydia]

Not so long ago, movie stars were handsome.

[jimbo123]

“Certainly, we wanted to honor U.S. bravery in The Pacific,” Hanks says. “But we also wanted to have people say, ‘We didn’t know our troops did that to Japanese people.’ “

[stephenjohnbanker]

Stick to the movies, Tom.

Shut Up and Act!!

[HerrBlucher]

Hanks is a moron.

[Rebelbase]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Yardstick]

So we wanted to defeat the Japanese because they were different from us?

It’s insight like this that keeps Time magazine flying off the shelves.

[darkwing104]

How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief

Tom Hanks is no historian...And his movies aren't historically correct either.

[digger48]

Douglass Brinkley has a thing for re-writing military history.

After all, he wrote John Kerrys biography.

[highlander_UW]

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?"

Nothing like just making up history out of whole cloth.

How about Japan wanted raw materials to feed a growing empire? They attacked America because we stood in their way to overrunning the Philippines.

[FlingWingFlyer]

" He hated everybody in the Navy."

I think you might have stumbled into something there, Tommy boy.

My dad was in the Navy in the Pacific during WWII and he felt exactly the opposite. Maybe that's why I'm a conservative and you're a "Me, Me, Me," liberal.

[skeeter]

"Strange to think that I've become the World War II guy," Hanks laughs. "All my friends had dads who were on the U.S.S. Nimitz or U.S.S. Enterprise or U.S.S. Coral Sea. They lived in naval housing, and everybody who was like a primary caregiver to me talked about the war."

I hate to pick nits, but Nimitz was a man during WWII, and Coral Sea was a battle. Are you sure your friends weren't talking about some other war?

Hanks should've kept his mouth shut for this interview - if anyone is counting on him as a historian, they will be sadly misled.

[Marty62]

OMG..Yet another stupid Dummie trying to spread Anti-American Propaganda.

The American people should stop supporting them with ticket sales or viewership.

Give them a good lesson in supply and demand economics.

[Little Bill]

I went out with a young women just before I got out of the Army. Her father was captured on Bataan, he was thankful he had no sons and disapointed that we only had two A-Bombs.

Slant eyed heathen was a mild term for him.

[brownsfan]

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

I guess Hanks has so much money, he feels he can do as he pleases.

[Jim from C-Town]

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING that that the American military did to the Japaneses and the Germans compares to the Rape of Nan king, the Bataan Death March, the Holocaust, the atrocities committed on the Russians by the Germans or for that manner the on the Germans by the Russians.

This BS review of history comes from people who Know nothing and whose only exposure to history comes from the writings of the likes of Howard Zinn.

America is so wealthy and powerful in economics, military and culture that most everyone who lives here, particularly the elite, have a skewed view of the World.

[Stalwart]

I’ll think he’s doing some off-season PR for the left, getting ready for the WWII revisionist season that seems to come every August. He’s probably going to narrate or produce something for them. Betcha.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

Tom Hanks, we want to kill them before they kill us, not because they are different. Period. That is their only goal, to kill as many of us as possible for their Allah.

[GinaLolaB]

[GinaLolaB]

American POW's

[Dogbert41]

Before that series starts, they should show this film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAp8bSdE5MQ