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Sunday, September 07, 2025

The USMA alumni association at West Point canceled an award ceremony for actor and veterans advocate Tom Hanks, citing a desire for the US Army service academy to focus on preparing future officers for war. Hanks (69) was to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award, which recognizes an "outstanding citizen" who did not attend West Point and has a distinguished record of service that exemplifies the academy's ideals: "Duty, Honor, Country."

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Stinky prefers Andrew Tate.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-07 03:56 PM | Reply

Hanks did call our current Commander in Chief a "simplistic, self-involved gasbag"

The military culture, whether you agree or not, you show respect for those who outrank you or are closely tied to the military.

This isn't the first time comments made long ago came back to bite someone.

His next role? Martyr. I can already picture him practicing his martyr's soliloquy in the mirror, with all the dramatic expression he thinks is expected of a victim.

#2 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-07 04:51 PM | Reply

Meanwhile, the bloated------------ ----- over veterans at every turn.

www.npr.org

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-07 04:55 PM | Reply

"simplistic, self-involved gasbag"

One of the nicest things that could be said about our Traitor in Chief.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-07 05:07 PM | Reply

Trump hasn't liked Hanks since he caught Baron watching Shaving Ryan's Privates

#5 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-09-07 05:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"The military culture, whether you agree or not, you show respect for those who outrank you or are closely tied to the military."

Or you can just lie.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 05:53 PM | Reply

Sounds like -------- to me.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-07 06:13 PM | Reply

Don't know how the non-paywall link was changed. Here it is: Archived Link

"Tom Hanks has done more for the positive portrayal of the American service member, more for the caring of the American veteran, their caregivers and their family, and more for the American space program and all branches of government than many other Americans," Robert McDonald, a former secretary of veteran's affairs and the alumni association's board chairman said. In 1994 Tom Hanks portrayed a US Army Medal of Honor awardee who fought in Vietnam, "Forrest Gump." Mr. Hanks later played the parr of a US Army Ranger Captain who sacrifices his life in "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). 'SPR' makes for a near-perfect macho Judeo-Christian war film absent blacks, women, or homosexuals, but with a deeply religious Christian sniper. At the end of the iconic film, director Steven Spielberg films a military cemetery conspicuous with Christian and Jewish markers, but clearly none for atheists (atom) or Muslims (crescent moon and star): All White Judeo-Christian Graveyard.

FYI: Donald Trumpf Jr., who never worked a day in his life, nor had he ever served in the US military, applauded this contemptuous act by cronies loyal to the diabolical Trumpf junta.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-07 10:22 PM | Reply

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