Tom Hanks on Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later | Amanpour and Company
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- When we think of D-Day, perhaps the most vivid imagery comes not from the newsreels of the time, but from cinema -- for example, the visceral, haunting battlefield scenes from "Saving Private Ryan." That movie’s star, Tom Hanks, is a history buff, and since that film he has produced with Steven Spielberg the acclaimed TV series "Band of Brothers," "The Pacific" and -- most recently -- "Masters of the Air." Hanks traveled to Normandy for the anniversary commemoration. Christiane spoke with him there about the meaning of this anniversary and the importance of remembering.
Originally aired on June 6, 2024
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When I was a new teacher, many years ago, I walked nervously into a rural Canadian high school to interview for my first professional position. I paused to read a placard on the wall in the foyer which listed the names of all the local students who had fought and died in the Second World War…and I was speechless….so many names of boys just a few years younger than I was at the time, who had given their lives. I have wondered ever since that day how our generation could ever repay our debt to their generation.
Repay your debt by never voting for a wannabe tyrant.
Respect….salute
It can’t be repaid. It can only be respected and “lest we forget”.
By not allowing it to go to waste. Free isn’t free. Know world history!
By cherishing and protecting the freedoms they gave their lives for.
The world would have been completely different if D-day did not happened. Let’s not forget the price of freedom and democracy is never cheap. We should be grateful to the past generation in giving us this gift. We owe it to them our way of life today.
Well Germany had already been losing and in retreat since late 1942. Germany was retreating in Russia and had to abandon North Africa and were also retreating in Italy, so they were already being squeezed slowly. It was inevitable they were going to lose even without D-Day. D-Day just sped it up.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Without Overlord, it would of also cost much more lives. If Germany was given more time, things could of got a lot worse. But yea, with Russia, US, Canada, UK and other countries they were going to lose eventually.
Germany lost the creme of the crop of there soldiers in Russia
The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy.
That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our beloved ones again! :-)
Yes Edward, we are forever, indebted to them. It's a comradery and bravery, all creeds, colours, religions, that came together for the greater good, for the sake of humanity. In light of what's happening today, those poor souls would be turning in their graves.
"Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried to live my life the best that I could. I hope that was enough. I hope that, at least in your eyes, I've earned what all of you have done for me." - James Francis Ryan
That sentence has been a model to follow ever since I saw SPR two decades ago.From Chile,South America my deepest respects for those brave veterans who fought for the freedom of the Western World. May the Heavenly Father bless them for good.I kneel down in prayer before them.
The story goes that Spielberg actually observed an old soldier shamble up to a cross and fall to his knees, when he visited the Normandy American cemetery. He used that moving visual to bookend the movie.
The most emotional piece of film ever...I paraphrase it in my head often... whne I have a challenge.
made me cry tbh great movie
We have a tradition in my house to watch SPR every June 6 at 6:30 am. Saw this interview right after and it was perfect!
What about school, work, etc?
Try 'The Longest Day', you won't be disappointed
I do too! This year I woke up really early and couldn’t fall back asleep so I started my yearly viewing early. My husband woke up a few minutes into and ended up watching it with me before work. It’s not really about the movie, but about taking that time to remember all the people that died for freedom. My own grandfather lied about his age and at 16 joined the Navy at the tail end of WWII.
I always watch SPR on every Memorial Day, President's Day, Veterans Day, 4th of July and June 6th
My college golf coach was one of those boat drivers that brought the troops to the beach at Omaha. He said he was in the second wave, he was under heavy fire and was wounded. He refused to dive deep into his experiences in WWII, but did say several young boys who were killed getting off his craft. He was a quiet unassuming nice man.
It pleases me to see Mr Hanks implicated in remembering D Day . Clear speech and common sense . We should never forget the sacrifice of all those who fought for our freedom .
One mans ego destroyed millions upon millions. Tom Hanks was right on that.
''One mans ego destroyed millions upon millions.''-----Alone??????????????????Hardly!
@putin 👀
@@alexandervargas8707 Xelensky ++
@@narancaukeven if you were in a claimed historian you can't dispute that Hitler cause /triggered ww2.
Your intelligence will stick out like a sore thumb if you try to disprove that Hitler was not the cause of war .
@@skyedog24 Hahahahahahahahaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
NO. I WAS!!!Are you a Croat, or Livonian
Uber lunch?? He should’ve said a Wilson volleyball.
Or brought me some shrimp. 😉
Good to see Capt. Miller alive and kickin' it!
Why wouldn't he be he's not 90
A good depiction of how dramatically insane humans can be at times..And isn't it strange that in our relatively short life span,, we're always striving to find ways to cut corners??
@@m42037 woosh
He aged really slowly
I wanna know what private upham and reiben have been up to in the last 80 years as they survived on the bridge of remelle
Glad he mentioned all the others who took part in D Day, wasn’t just the Americans.
83,000 American Troops
61,000 British Troops
23,000 Canadian Troops.
177 Commando Kiefer French amongst British troops on the beach (Churchill and Roosevelt would not allow more hence De Gaulle's rather negative view of this operation) and about 7,500 in the FFL vessels supporting the operation and even more French SAS parachutists under Brit Command (32+), FFI (French Resistance inside the country) involved in the days prior and after the landing.
lots of other nationalities of parents nationalities, fought too, Polish, Irish, Greek etc .... Saw their headstones with names yesterday.
@@AuxaneST12,000 French troops died in the Normandy campaign. Lest we forget.
Good point, although the Hollywood producers didn’t give any credit to the British and Canadian’s as usual.
One of my favorite actors and favorite interviewers/journalists. Thank you so much. We would not be here today without the men and woman that fought and gave their lives 🙏
Whatever you think about Tom Hanks, he has gone out of his way many times to tell important stories about ordinary soldiers. Not only that, he has advocated for them time and again. Christiane Amanpour, with her snarky, flipant, and jaded take on life, can't even begin to relate to those brave ordinary people.
I remember the first time I watched 'Saving Private Ryan' & being absolutely shocked at the horror of the opening scene.
My father was part of the allied invasion landing on Sword beach with the King's Own Scottish Borderers & I remember vividly him recalling the sheer terror of the day. Thanks for posting this & great to see Tom who's my favourite actor.
Is it just me, or does Tom Hanks have the look, the sound, the sense and the self effacing presence, to be an all American hero, The President!!
I just watched Tom Hanks entire interview with Amanpour. Many of us took his comments out of context being a segment. Tom Hanks an extraordinary advocate.
Like being called pops AF 25, your prime is late 20s early 30s. Lot of men were well over 25 in WW2 in their 40s even 50s
Average age of the combat soldier during WW2 was 26...
we should be offering them healing and help for the war scars they carry. thats what we should be doing for all vets of all wars. Lets pour our money and time into helping them heal from this horror that most of us are lucky we will never have to face. God bless them and their bravery. May their souls find peace.
How quickly it becomes history, I was born in 1961 I met lots of veterans since the U.K. was full of them, one worked in the City of London with a girlfriend of mine, he lost a leg on that day, and was asked if he would attend a memorial there? “I am never going back” came the reply, but he had a roguish humour, “What F***s and winks like a Tiger ?” He would say whilst giving a playful wink. He will be long gone now I expect but I remember all the ones i met who served in that war, and the old boy who was from WW1 and couldn’t get his boots on due to shrapnel, so as a schoolboy he asked me to help as I walked past his house. For me they will all live for ever.
It's a respectable Man Tom Hanks what he did ..I wish he was President Of USA
That would be amazing.
Tom, I'm french from Normandy and I love you and your movie before 😊
My team and I made three jumps into Normandy for the 80th-- it was a humbling privilege to walk through that cemetery and to wander the former battlefields. Make no mistake-- the French, remember, honor and serve the memories of who came there to liberate them from Nazi Germany. Normandy is covered with little, well-kept memorials to those brave men who made the last full measure of devotion to free them. There's even a memorial dedicated to the sacrifices of the women who saw their family sail overseas to never return.
It's good to see Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-day they are both very respectful 🙏 of what happened on that day
Tom Hanks is & always the best actor in all movies
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Facts
Well said Sir, meanwhile the British PM buggers off to record an interview
As a Brit I can tell you we can’t stand him either guys a weasel
At these events they are an irrelevancy. The King has cancer he came.
The first scene from "Saving Private Ryan" is the most graphic and authentic scene of the beaches on D-day, brilliant by Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg, thank you so much
I think it is great Tom Hanks attended these commemorations, he shows more interest than Rishi
I would have too but it would be too much for my emotional health so i honoured them from home. I’m glad I did
Nice that he took the time to do this.
We had wars in Europe in the 90's. The Balcan war!
It was Germany destroying Yugoslavia ....Like in 1941
@@narancauk Srebrenica 1995 was a german massacre?? Take your pills, man!
@narancauk 😂🤡
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My late father-in-law was with the third wave the 29th division at Omaha. His brother was with the first division at Omaha, and his other brother was a power trooper. All of them survived the war. They all got together all three Brothers and survived the liberation of Paris God bless them all.
"We're not lost. We're in Normandy." -- Lt. Winters, "Band of Brothers"
Watching all of the D-Day festivities & hearing the tales from the remaining veterans had me thinking of both "Band of Brothers" & "Saving Private Ryan" as well as classic war movies like "The Longest Day."
This was a great interview with a man who saw these events through very different eyes.
US Nation should seriously concider Mr. Tom Hanks for Their President. Very clever, smart, good, honour, knowing history Man. Thank You Mr Hanks for what You have done and still have been doing for rememberance and understandindg what war, stupid politician decisions consequences are and what huge costs all man kind had to pay many many times for them.
I am struck by how sprightly, (within reason), and lucid, the English veterans are, compared with the Americans, who seem to be (understandably) very aged. God bless them all and especially the men that landed that day - but never left.
They didn’t travel so far to be honest?
Of the 140 Million people in the USA in 1945, sixteen million men and women served in the military during the war. The losses : 671,486 wounded men, 77,000 missing in action, and 407,316 men who died.
One of the best movies ive ever watched about what it was like in WW2
Crazy to think about "What if this or that had not happened" in life. We often do not realize how real the butterfly effect is. In the past, I met strangers at work who had made even just minor decisions in their personal lives in another country that, in the end, would have changed my life and that of many. And they told me their anecdotes just on the side without realizing how much of an impact their decisions had on me.
Interesting. Would be have been good if you’d given an example to illustrate your point…. (If you don’t mind me saying so).
@@sylviaroberts8103 Example: I work in the film industry and was heavily influenced by a series of movies like many other people in Europe during their childhood. That series began in 1967, 20 years before I was born. I met an actor once I fulfilled my dream of working in the film industry. By that time, I was 30 years old, and he told me that in 1967, he was offered the role in a movie that he rejected. Now, if he had not rejected that role, this entire series that influenced so many people in Europe and children in particular, would not have happened and maybe I would not have found my appreciation for film and stood next to that actor on that particular day anyways.
The *Centenarians* walk the Earth.
It would be a true honor to meet Tom Hanks an others and to talk to him about everything and anything. And to help do the right thing.
Thank You Mam, most truthful ❤️
I miss Barbara Walters .
Christianne is all that's left
of that era.
Freedom comes at a hell of a price. Thank God they paid it!!
so you can watch netflix all day long
Thank you tom
I think about all these fallen soldiers that I’ve never even met in the sacrifice and the gift that they gave to us all
Personally I prefer to read the books, especially Stephen Ambrose's books and in this instance his book D Day. But I guess since we had two WWII veterans who made it back home I mostly cherish the memories of their stories I heard firsthand. My father in law joined the Navy on 12/8/41 he was 16. By early 1942 he was a torpedo man in the destroyer escort fleet doing convoy duty in the North Atlantic. He made 37 trips through the canal seeing Naval combat in both the Atlantic & Pacific theaters. My brothers father in law was a Marine and was on Tarawa & Saipan, we miss you both Brownie & Norm. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
My great uncle Louis served on D-Day. He was a paratrooper (that's as far as I know).
HAPPY 68TH BIRTHDAY TOM HANKS !!!!
growing up, i always thought the TV show “Mash” was a direct depiction of war, lol 😂 boy you can imagine my freakin’ surprise as i got older…
Mes respects monsieur Hanks . A jamais vous serez l imagine et enfant ou surtout frère tous vons compatriotes n importe là ou il y aura une croix de marbre blanc sous un drapeau de votre nation . Comme on dit chez nous en France : vous êtes juste un mec bien . Chapeau bas monsieur.
This is worth a listen - and is a stark contrast to the complete lack of respect by Sunak for the D-Day veterans, and by Trump for democracy
Tom for Prime Minister and President !
I wanted to see (Capt) Tom Hanks in his Saving Private Ryan uniform at this event but it would be sort of sacrilegious to those who were actually living and dying on the Beach.
Ya think?
Well done Mr. Tom Hanks. Thankx
Weird thing is that there is a grave behind him where a Captain Miller lies.
Is this the whole interview?
"America was thought to be lazy, divided and undisciplined......", an 80 + year old opinion that is now accurate.
yes USA needs German management
Tom Hanks for president 👍
Another amazing and inciteful interview!!!
I hope Tom enjoyer his "Uber lunch delivered courtesy of FedEX" LOL LOL
...the Great Depression was anything but "comfortable America."
Just saying....
Grandma remembers FDR and mimics him, "we are at waar." Considering that or the front lines relatively speaking I suppose you could call it that....WIIIIILSOOOOOOON!❤
I'm glad she's all right.
There were times several decades ago - when I seriously worried about her.
The way things were going - if D-Day had failed - what would have happened was all of Northern Europe would have been taken over by the Communists.
WWII had been lost by the Germans in 1941 and there was nothing they could do to change that.
What would have happened if we had failed on June 6th 1944 - was that we would have tried again later.
The thing was - D-Day was NOT going to fail. There were to many of us, we were to strong and the Germans never could have stopped us. They could have done better than they did - but they could never have stopped us.
Rommel's plan was to defeat the Allies at the waters edge. He knew - that if we got ashore - they were doomed. He was right about that - but - the Germans never had the where with all to stop us as the waters edge. They NEVER could have done it.
Omaha Beach was hard - but - even there we prevailed and the other beaches were no where near as bad as Omaha.
As I keep saying - the Germans were winning the war in the first half of 1941 - but they lost it in the 2nd half. They went to war with the Soviets in June and the Americans in December. After that - they were doomed no matter what they did. They could have done better and could have done worse - but they were doomed.
When Barbarossa started - the Germans had a man power reserve of 1 million. The Soviets had a man power reserve of 14 million. After the first year - the German reserve was gone. The Soviets used most of those 14 million men in the course of the war but - the German Army that went into Russia at 3 million men just kept getting small and smaller.
*_"You've got horses! What were you thinking?"_*
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-Webster, Band of Brothers, sums it up.
Maybe 15% of the German Army was motorized - the rest used animal transport throughout the war. The Germans never had the industrial capacity to put them all in vehicles - and never had the fuel those vehicles would need. As the war went on - they had to de-motorize units - reverting them to animal transport.
In the early German Victories they always had Air Superiority.
After 1943 - once the American 8th Air Force got strong enough to matter - the Germans fighter planes were up trying to defend their cites and they never had Air Superiority any where after Kursk ever again. Though the 8th Air Force took horrendous casualties - they destroyed the Luftwaffe. By the end of the war - there were no German Fighter Planes to speak of flying during the day. The British switched from night bombing to day bombing because we hadn't been able to do much about the German Night Fighters.
The British and American Armies were fully motorized. The only time they used animal transport - was in the mountains and the jungle where vehicles couldn't go.
The Americans gave the Russians 400,000 Trucks and Jeeps.
As the Germans were de-motorizing units - the Russians were motorizing them.
Another way of putting it - is - _The Fascists were Thugs and Thugs are Stupid_ .
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❤❤❤ Tom Hanks
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As a Brit living in The USA I wish wearing poppies was adopted.
Not to be argumentative - this is just a question born of curiosity! - but from living in England for a few years, I had assumed the poppies were more a remembrance of the First War rather than the Second. They're certainly applicable to both, I agree, and had probably come to represent both over time.
I agree wholeheartedly with your larger sentiment, too. I don't know that I can describe it well, but there is a difference between Britain and the US in how they commemorate WWII. Maybe it's related to the fact that we were not defending our homes - the US was more or less immune from any large-scale attack in those days. The British, on the other hand, still live in some very real and tangible ways with the attempt by Hitler to conquer their island AND the fact that a European land war STILL never seems merely a threat from the past.
@@ObservantHistorian You are correct on all observations. I suppose I would just like to see a public show of remembrance throughout the USA. I was with some American friends on 11/11 in London and they were very impressed with the 2 minute silence. I might add to all this in America it was assumed they understood rationing and it bared no comparison to the stringent and long-lasting effects of rationing in the UK. I wish all these things were shared and taught in detail today.
@@user-nc2kz2mn5v And I can't help but contrast the relative weakness of WWII commemoration in the US with the feverish need of the Mississippi legislature to ensure a "Confederate Heritage Day" on the calendar and the "Lost Cause" dedication shown in Virginia renaming schools BACK to those of the "heroes" of the slavers' failed rebellion.
@@ObservantHistorian Absolutely.
I found Tom Hanks' words very wise and profound, especially when he says that the young Americans who participated in the landing were fine at home and offered their lives just to give us freedom. I wonder: in these 80 years have we been worthy of their sacrifice?
lmao
In France today the D-Day veterans were given a 21 gun salute, which is reserved solely for the President and Heads of States.
That's bull crap*, the vets put their lives on the line while Presidents and Heads of States are always safely out of harms way.
The vets deserve at least a 22 gun salute, if not more.
* In fear of being censored, I think everybody knows the word I wanted to use.
Its not about the President or Head of State. Its about what they represent, i.e. the United States of America or the United Kingdom and France. By getting a 21 gun salute, they are effectively also honoring the veterans.
Twenty-one is highest number. Other lower numbers are 19, 17, 15, 13, 11, 7, and 5.
King George VI being the exception he never left London at all during the war
@@bonkerslez91 I think Churchill go to the confrancess was in more actual danger then your figurehead King let's be real outside of figure head status the monarchy hass had any real power since the USA was born and the king lost his everloving mind
@@JonathanRiggall-ff2ymyeah well he was in Buckingham palace when it was bombed and it nearly killed him
2:53 we should not play this clip without silence for that fallen soldier.
Walked one beach on 70th anniversary. It’s a disturbing experience
"Gory gory what a hell of a way to die!"
Great to hear someone who actually was there and survived against the odds. You are my hero Tom Hanks.
He was in a movie, he wasn't even born in 1944!!
@@larrycasper4381 He served during ww2 and wasn't even born yet??? What a guy!
@@larrycasper4381 he stormed the beach on Omaha beach! Havent you seen the movie? Its live footage from a guy with a camera who was there
@@Fredrik7le that was epstein island that he visited many times
As King Solomon said as a wise old man: “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
Tom Hanks for President
Our president literally bent over on live TV at a memorial to our heroes and dropped a deuce in his pants. So embarassing for our nation.
What's a Bangalore? Jim my bus driver told me all about Normandy. Tell Tom that scene where they storm the beach and dawn was not only gory, but pretty dam realistic. Tom is correct. Today's kids don't care and would pee their pants in the face of danger.
A Bangalore is an explosive device shaped as a pipe, typically used to clear out barbed wire and other obstacles. It's named after the city Bangalore in India where it was invented.
Hanks is one of the few left making films that matter. Hats off to Spielberg for his creation with Hanks. So blessed that these guys take history as seriously as some us do...destined not to repeat.
No it doesn't come from cinema. It comes from letters home, diaries and the words of veterans. Not Hollywood.
God bless America..
2:18
"It doesn't take the most powerful nation on earth, to create the next global conflict. Just a will of single man" - Makarov
Tom Hanks est un passionné de la seconde guerre mondiale. Son rôle du capitaine miller était vraiment surprenant.
Il a coproduit la série télévisée "band of brothers" l'histoire de la easy compagny, du 506 PIR de la 101e Airborne.
Une histoire d'hommes communs mais au destin incroyable dans un des conflit les plus meurtrier.
Un sens du devoir, de l'honneur et d'un courage incroyable pour sauver ce pays qui est le mien, la France.
Merci a tous ces hommes, blessés, mort, ou vivant, tous ceux qui sont venus combattre pour la liberté, l'infamie du 3 ème Reich allemands, la sa barbarie Nazi.
Nous ne vous oublierons jamais.
Merci.
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He was fighting Germans in ww2 and rescuing servicemen in Nam. This man is a military legend
And mermaids. Don’t forget the mermaids.
Tom hanks is one of the fallen angels/ demons that got kick out from heaven for their rebellion. A lot of them are in this generation ( celebrities, politicians, scientists) Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon🙏🏼❤️🕊Repent, believe in the Gospel, Be Born Again
God bless every single one of them
We all owe a lot to these Men and the People eho waited for them at home. Some people will say we are glorifying war. Let me say "NO WE ARE NOT!!!! We are honouring those who gave up everthing to fight against tyranny." If this did not happen then Europe would be a whole lot different. Where I feel the right to speak out would have been curtailed.
Those films and history should be studied in depth in the USA and the UK.
If the allied soldiers knew the truth they would not have advanced 100 meters up that beach.
This comment section need to learn their history badly.
I’m a soldier here, I wanted to shake Tom Hanks hand at Bob Doles funeral while I was posted outside his door Tom Hanks walked by. He looked over me and went into a green room. So once he left the green room me and the boys went in and ate his muffin he left out of spite. When I told our officer we had captured Mr. Hanks muffin the officer told me to STFU. So I’m tracking the stupidity of that day. Lieutenant Dan on the other hand shook my hand at Walter Reed after the missiles struck out men in Iraq. Got a challenge coin from SMA.
Had a gay scarf on. Was taller than 5’11”
Mr Hanks needs to be staying the hell away from the FedEx planes...
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I would have expected a more firm answer on tRump.
Why? What the fuck does his opinion of Trump or any politician have to do with the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
He's on hallowed ground and he can respect that on this day. It's about the veterans and who fought there. Not about today's politics.
@@benahern7410 Excuse me, you don´t have to be vulgar from the beginning. The question from the journalist was about today´s politics. And in the US it is Trump who polarizes the political scene. And he is on his way to repeat what those veterans fought against 80 years ago. He is a neo-fascist.
@@vonpfrentschLike I said, it's about D-Day, not today's politics. Trumps not the one polarizing today's news, its today's media injecting him into every story every way they can. Shame on the interviewer for bringing it up on this day.
@@vonpfrentschTrump is polarizing the political scene because the media hates him and injects him into every topic they can, anyway they can. Glad he didn't take the bait. Shame on her for bringing this up on this day, especially where they are.
A movie, even the most realistic as possible, as the war ones and specifically this one, doesn't describe in 50% - 60% of what it was the real thing... But is a very good one.. Not even in books, but the Gilles Perrault The Great Day is a great one, not to say Beauvior, Martin Gilbert etc, great but a little standard ones..But great books..
Wow, you interview and actor who never even served in the military, much less served in combat, about what it was like for the real soldiers who had to fight in Normandy. Reminds me of when a Congressional committee had a couple of actresses come in to testify about farming issues just because they had acted as farm girls in some stupid movie set on a farm in Iowa.
Yet has done his research and has actively commemorated them, why so much hate?
@@damosanchex please read the comment again. I wasn't "hating" on Tom Hanks, I was criticizing the network for choosing to interview an actor over real veterans who were actually there and available to be interviewed.
@@LA_Commander Perhaps they may not want to be interviewed? Just there for commemoration and don't want any limelight, could bring up some shit.
@@damosanchex Perhaps. But that is just pure speculation at this point.
Tom Hanks is legend
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Tom Hanks on Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later
Good people help other people. That's it.
Mr Hanks is the British prime minister we should have........
Thank you Christianne and Tom for this informative interview.
British and Canadian troops outnumbered Americans on the beaches on D Day. It would have been nice if Tom mentioned their sacrifices also.
He did
He is an American being interviewed for CNN. He is relating to what he knows. However, I suspect if he was interviewed by the CBC or BBC he would speak to that for sure.
Canadian veterans were being commemorated at a separate ceremony at Juno Beach and British veterans at the British Normandy Museum all on the same day yesterday.
He did mention them ... Now that you've brought it up... The US got the Hard/Heavy Fighting duty on Dday at Omaha Beach.. while the Brits got to walk ashore. Same as the Americans taking the heavy fighting doing the Daylight Bombing over Germany ... While the Brits got the easier/safer Night Bombing Duty.
“Walk ashore” British/Canadian losses D Day were 1,840. American, 2,501. (Figures don’t include casualties) As for “Brits getting the easier bomber daytime duty” RAF losses exceeded USAF losses: 55,573 compared to 54,997. My comment was never meant to be disrespectful to Americans landing on D Day. I just felt a greater historical context could have been included.
I questioned Hanks because series like “The Pacific” (which was brilliant in my opinion) lack this context. A young person watching that might conclude it was only the Americans fighting the Japanese. British empire troops fought a relentless war for years against Japan in the jungles of Asia. Hanks and Spielberg of course have every right to portray WW11 as they wish. Nevertheless I just feel some historical context would have been nice.
There is something about Tom Hanks that just give you some sort of hope that adecent person can get to the top of their game and remain decent
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My God, Tom Hanks is a national treasure.
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My father Bennie Flores served in ww2 as did my uncle Oscar Juarez tank crew really good interview and insight by Hanks i look at our country now and wonder about the division and so called maga patriots Trump trump
Il tell u it is so strange to see people just stoping to take a picture of Tom Hanks doing an interview in the middle of Arlington cemetery. I don't understand people. I swear I don't. Smh I just... Will never understand this society.
That's not Arlington cemetery. What the people there are seeing is an interview set with lights and cameras and Hanks and the interviewer and probably several people on the platform with them. They're shooting it because they have cameras and they can - it's part of their experience they've chosen to capture. Nothing strange about that.
A great American; thank you Mr Hanks
I think whoever thought that about America was off by about 80 years.