Comments on: Gettting it Wrong About the Pacific War

By: Count d'Haricots

Count d'Haricots — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:05:42 +0000

Which ones? The Italian-American Internment Camps or the German-American internment Camps?

By: Amazona

Amazona — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:45:59 +0000

I’ll bet the same idiots who got all wound up about making well-fed, well-housed, prisoners of war wear panties on their heads at Abu Ghraib were applauding Hanks’ grotesque distortion of history, totally ignorant of the atrocities of Japanese internment camps, death marches, medical experimentation, REAL torture, and the facts of the war.

By: Amazona

Amazona — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:39:58 +0000

I don’t care what Tom Hanks has produced, acted in, or been involved in in any way—what he said was a slur on America, on American troops in WWII, and a vicious lie.

And anyone familiar with the treatment of their enemies by the Japanese would have a hard time whining about insulting comments made about them, though I am sure knee-jerk Libs will try. There are many accounts of the brutality of the Japanese. There is a reason there is so much animosity toward the Japanese by the Koreans, too. When you treat people the way the Japanese treated people, you have to expect animosity and hostility.

This is the second time in a week or so Hanks has made some utterly stupid and embarrassing comment—sounds like the man is going a little Lindsay Lohan on us.

By: tiredoflibbs

tiredoflibbs — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:08:07 +0000

Hanks was still wrong, regardless of his productions.

If you have read the biography of Lindsay “Buck” Compton you would see that Band of Brothers (the miniseries) did take some poetic license.

Again, you are comparing apples to oranges. Hanks was wrong in his comments.

By: canuckguy

canuckguy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:08:09 +0000

“…viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’…”

Well I am not surprised at the hatre that was felt once word spread about the inhuman mal-treatment of POW’s inflicted by the Japanese

By: casper

casper — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:47:57 +0000

jeremiah,
My father served in the Pacific. He was stationed on Johnson Island working on bombers that went in and out of the theater. In the late 1960s my dad took a teaching job on Guam for two years. While I lived there I visited all of the battle sites and got to know a lot of the people who had been through the Japanese occupation which was pretty brutal. Interestingly, the last Japanese soldier on Guam surrendered a couple of years after we left.
I’ve been studying the Pacific war for years. I’ve stood on the USS Arizona Memorial and talked to a vet who was at pearl Harbor. I have original copies of Stars and Stripes and Life magazines from the thirties and forties which contain dozens of articles about the war. As a teacher, I’ve sponsored a History Day club for ten years and have helped students with probably a dozen projects dealing with the war in the Pacific.

By: jeremiah06

jeremiah06 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:11:04 +0000

casper,

be ‘pecific, what can you tell us about the Pacific? War, that is…

By: jeremiah06

jeremiah06 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:26:45 +0000

I was down at the elderly fellow’s that I work for today helping him to get some things up off the floor of his garage so that the flood waters wouldn’t do any damage to the tools he had in there…and for some reason as he looked outside, down through his fields appeared as if it were a lake…I am guessing that brought memories of when he fought in the Pacific, he told of the time he arrived in New Guinea and said that they couldn’t get in very close to the sea-ports because there were so many sunken ships that had been bombed, mast’s sticking up out of the water, and said it was the same way on land, completely reduced to rubble. He said though that he remembered the day that they war ended…when they were all in mess hall, and all at once the food trays went flying off the shelves when they bombed a German submarine, and the felt the shock-wave off the bomb, and he said that was when they called the war to an end, and they all got to come home. 21 round-trips he made across the ocean…down the Suez canal, up and down the Mediterranean sea, all over the place.

I thought is was interesting to hear him tell of all this, as there’s a lot of history and geography involved in it, and he not only could tell it, but he lived it.

I never realized that he had been in both the Pacific and Vietnam wars both…so, since I’m not up on such matters, and I didn’t really remember most of what all he told, I think I will sit down with him one day and let him rehearse it again and take notes.

By: casper

casper — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:03:47 +0000

tiredoflibbs says:
March 13, 2010 at 12:47 pm

cas,

you do know the difference between PRODUCING, WRITING and ACTING, don’t you?”

Actually I do know the difference.

“A film producer or movie producer is someone who creates the scenes and conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the film-making process from development to completion of a project.”

Hanks was a producer on Band of Brothers and John Adams.

By: Mark Noonan

Mark Noonan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:11:34 +0000

The films are not at issue – what is at issue is Hanks’ regurgitation of nonsense about the war.