West Point alumni make moronic move
I can’t prove that Hanks’ support of Joe Biden, and Hanks being a Democrat, had anything to do with the West Point alumni association's about-face.
Being as Tom Hanks already has two Academy Awards, seven Emmys, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actor Guild awards, an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, the French Legion of Honor, and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, he probably doesn’t care he was just stabbed in the back by the alumni association of West Point.
That chicken-legged outfit disgraced itself by withdrawing an announced ceremony at which to present the award to Hanks as an “outstanding citizen of the United States. . . [who exemplifies] the ideals expressed in West Point’s motto: Duty, honor, service.”
Not to mention, as in this published report, Hanks served as the national spokesman for the World War II Memorial in Washington, and supported Republican Sen. Robert Dole’s efforts to raise funds for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican.
The West Point Association of Graduates gave no explanation for the ceremony, which would have included a parade. Did it retreat under fire? I don’t know, but that action was followed by happy whoops from President Donald J. Trump. The petty draft dodger posted, "We don't need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!!”
I know Woke, I don’t like what Woke is today, but Hanks is not Woke. He is an old-fashioned liberal who wears patriotism like a chevron on Forrest Gump’s sleeve.
Aside from playing the heroic Gump, he was the battle-rattled captain who led a patrol to save Private Ryan.
He played other calm American heroes in uniform: Pilot Sully who miraculously landed a jetliner in the Hudson, Captain Phillips whose ship was hijacked by pirates, an astronaut in “Apollo 13,” and just for fun he was in a baseball uniform in “A League of Their Own,” and a FedEx uniform in “Cast Away.”
He also was a producer of two acclaimed television series that glorified soldiers and sailors of World War II —“Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific.” The proof is irrefutable — Hanks venerates those who serve.
Any of the dolts leading the West Point alumni see either of those series?
So, yes, I am a Hanks fan.
How many Americans are not? (Line forms at the right for MAGA heads. The far right.)
I can’t prove that Hanks’ support of Joe Biden, and Hanks being a Democrat, had anything to do with the West Point alumni association's revolting and inexplicable about-face.
I can’t prove Trump himself ordered it.
Trump himself did not order the Enola Gay B-29 be deleted from military history, but it happened. Trump himself didn’t cancel Jackie Robinson’s war record, but it happened. Trump himself did not remove mention of the fabled Tuskegee Airmen, but it happened.
All three were reversed.
As should the moronic move by the West Point brass hats, following a long and sincere apology.
