Hanks is doing a liberal cha cha about  who was doing what to whom and why.  The Japanese were mortal enemies who would crush us in a minute if they  had a bomb.  Or not.

There is no doubt that Einstein warned FDR to start developing a bomb as Germany had the knowledge to make one first, as  Einstein knew this from his work in Germany before Hitler. While a pacificist he knew that the Germans would not hesitate to obliterate us. Hence the Manhattan Project and the development of the Bomb.

The Imperialism practiced by the Japanese as outlined by Larry Johnson here is correct historically, and the progression of Japanese domination was rolling along in the Pacific inspite of the wind down of the war in Europe.

Hanks has obviously no knowledge of these moments in history but is giving us his feelgood ideas about what he believed happened.

Tom should take History 101 as it pertained to  Japan’s aggressive
political and militaristic positions with China and other Asian nations.

I clearly remember as a young teenager that I gave up wearing silk hosiery during Japan’s war with China. We boycotted anything silk from Japan as an act of opposition against Japan’s  aggressions militarism.

Tom needs to hit the books.

That’s one of the reasons, most times, I ignore your bowel movement of a blog.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

At 17 my dad enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and was stationed in the Pacific on the Light Cruiser USS Santa Fe.  

The Santa Fe was in every major pacific battle after Midway. It was called the Lucky Lady because after all the battles only one Marine and one Naval Officer stationed to the ship lost their lives.

My dad on the Santa Fe participated in the battles in the Aleutians, Tarawa, Pelilieu, Saipan, Marianas, Leyte Gulf, Philippine Liberation, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Tokyo as diversion for the impending battle at Okinawa.

One of the few moments of battle my father discussed was his helpless feeling watching the Marine landings at Tarawa and Peliliu get cut to ribbons.

He was a chief gunners mate and aimed the 6 inch guns, shelling island emplacements for days before the marines went ashore. Most enemy batteries had been taken out, but underground reinforced bunkers remained an obstacle for the Marines.

I became a Marine, partly out of my fathers empathy. He used up all that empathy because he had much difficulty expressing it in life outside of battle after the war.

His proudest reflection was the rescue of 850 sailors from the badly damaged, burning, and exploding USS Ben Franklin, an aircraft carrier.

His motivation for enlisting and fighting the war was not from racism. It was from partiotism. Our country was attacked, and like many others, my dad wanted to help his country.

As other’s have pointed out, it was not an easy time on the homefront, and there was just as much sacrifice.  Rationing and doing without essentials, and male family members, many of whom would not return was the norm.

If racism were the primary motive, there would be no rebuilding effort in Japan. Japan would have become a US colony instead of the proud, independent economic powerhouse it became following the war.

My father’s Father, was also in the Pacific, as a Navy Seabee. As an Irish immigrant, the only racist animosty he harbored was towards the English. He still called them limeys till his dying breath in 1984.

They had their faults, but racism towards the enemy was not one of them.

First of all, I do not support violence, period. Yet you clearly do support violence, because you support the violence of Israel against thousands of innocent palestinians, including women and children. 

You call someone a “terrorist sympathizer” when in fact YOU are the “terrorist sympathizer.” Israel’s leaders are former terrorists who were members of organizations listed as TERRORIST ORGANiZATIONS. You know, The Stern Gang, The Irgun, Haganah, etc. They committed the King David Hotel bombing, which killed 91 people. 

http://terrorism.about.com/od/groupsleader1/p/MenachemBegin.htm

http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html

Moreover, you support a state which attacked the US and killed and injured more than a hundred US servicemen and sailors aboard the USS Liberty. A deliberate attack on US forces. 

But you have the gall to call ME a “terrorist sympathizer” when never once have I ever supported any act of violence? 

You’re a liar; you’re a racist; you’re a hypocrite; and you’re a terrorist sympathizer, and you’re a pathetic fool. 

The “Israel” you support doesn’t exist, and it never has. And, you don’t have a clue what you support, thereby making you an ignorant rube. 

That said, all of the stories being told here of the wonderfully adaptable and forgiving Americans in our lives, has reminded me of this terrific Monty Python skit. A little levity rarely hurts!

Right and that is why you of course “lift” different phrases and vocabulary from Ferd, Arabella, Hokma and others use as we all know you are such an original Captain Tammy?

 I’m going to take just a wild guess here based on the attacks the word usage and your blatant cowardly conduct and say, you are one and the same as others who have come here using the same words and MO…no doubt for inspiration for your “writing” (rofl =-X )..then plagerize after you sneak in here usually late at night to blog bomb. Wow, how do you hold that head up without a spine?

You are just a sycophant who, lacking substantive debating skills, resorts to ad hominem abusives against those of us who disagree with you (again, I never called you anti-Semitic or anything of the kind) but then protest when the ad hominems are returned in kind. You call me a racist and the like. Fine. I will only now return the favor and call you a terrorist sympathizer. How does that work for you?

STFU about Israel. If you want to write an article on how Israel sucks, do it, submit it, get it published, and then comment on it.

Until then zip it, you thread jacking rodent.

The decision is not unprecedented, noted Joe Davis, spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who says he is not bothered by the flag’s absence.

During the Gulf War in 1991, U.S. forces took control of the main airport in Kuwait and briefly flew the American flag over their installation, Davis said, but higher-ups ordered it taken down to avoid an impression that U.S. forces were conquerors.

The missing American colors at Port-au-Prince airport were no problem to Don Hollenbaugh, a former Army Delta Force operator who received the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.

“Everybody in the world knows the U.S. is there,” Hollenbaugh said. “So by not flying the flag, we’re not changing anyone’s mind about anything.”