Tom Hanks on Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later | Amanpour and Company

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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[@edwardmusicman896]

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.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

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.

[@lilcherio8947]

@@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.

[@Rowehouse1819]

Germany lost the creme of the crop of there soldiers in Russia

[@AlexejSvirid]

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! :-)

[@lornasullivan4409]

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.

[@user-rq6id3gh3n]

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.

[@AmericanFlyOnTheWall]

Repay your debt by never voting for a wannabe tyrant.

[@milesbrown8016]

Respect….salute

[@robthatsme9831]

It can’t be repaid. It can only be respected and “lest we forget”.

[@GeorgePatton645]

By not allowing it to go to waste. Free isn’t free. Know world history!

[@stephenhill545]

By cherishing and protecting the freedoms they gave their lives for.

[@davidrussell8689]

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 .

[@johnmact5548]

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 🙏

[@luispiros]

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!

[@Schrodinger99]

What about school, work, etc?

[@-Gumbo]

Try 'The Longest Day', you won't be disappointed

[@RosieYogi40]

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.

[@brayanargandonaflorentino548]

I always watch SPR on every Memorial Day, President's Day, Veterans Day, 4th of July and June 6th

[@fakereality96]

Good to see Capt. Miller alive and kickin' it!

[@m42037]

Why wouldn't he be he's not 90

[@4catsnow]

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??

[@Robert-tj1nc]

@@m42037 woosh

[@blingbling574]

He aged really slowly

[@BC0101]

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

[@bingbingchavez]

Uber lunch?? He should’ve said a Wilson volleyball.

[@sandram6828]

Or brought me some shrimp. 😉

[@ringo-lf3cd]

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.

[@davidgray3321]

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.

[@oliviersormet8174]

Tom, I'm french from Normandy and I love you and your movie before 😊

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

HAPPY 68TH BIRTHDAY TOM HANKS !!!!

[@michaelhayden725]

This was a great interview with a man who saw these events through very different eyes.

[@josepuerta7137]

Tom Hanks for president 👍

[@patricksullivan4843]

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.

[@silviobertolotti6926]

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?

[@willharris-m7h]

lmao

[@angelofjustice913]

so true how to describe how an American nowadays is, Tom

[@Trey_816]

My great uncle Louis served on D-Day. He was a paratrooper (that's as far as I know).

[@billmurray7473]

I miss Barbara Walters . Christianne is all that's left of that era.

[@jilliebean888]

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.

[@yannicklebreton4683]

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. 🇨🇵🤝🇺🇲

[@matthewthomas0330]

...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!❤

[@MarouaneDerfoufi1978]

Tom Hanks on Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later

[@stevenrodriguez9655]

2:53 we should not play this clip without silence for that fallen soldier.

[@sandyharris1088]

Tom Hanks for President

[@strongbelieveroftheholybible]

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

[@fasthracing]

Weird thing is that there is a grave behind him where a Captain Miller lies.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

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?"_* kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqq9fGuhacytr8k -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_ . .

[@xcalabur18]

My God, Tom Hanks is a national treasure.

[@willharris-m7h]

a pedo

[@romo2517]

A great American; thank you Mr Hanks

[@brianingarfill1773]

Another amazing and inciteful interview!!! I hope Tom enjoyer his "Uber lunch delivered courtesy of FedEX" LOL LOL

[@matthewskudzienski888]

(Saving Private Ryan)(1998)🇺🇸

[@Nickel1147]

No it doesn't come from cinema. It comes from letters home, diaries and the words of veterans. Not Hollywood.

[@dannys7549]

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.

[@garymcaleer6112]

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.”

[@GeorgeWashington-b6h]

Tom Hanks is legend

[@will7947]

Mr Hanks needs to be staying the hell away from the FedEx planes...

[@robertfletcher4065]

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.

[@josepedro8968]

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..

[@gene1673]

Tom Hanks for president!

[@Brandon-ch2ot]

Good people help other people. That's it.

[@theSnakeDoctor]

Can Tom just run for office already

[@WeazelJaguar]

Watch Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, to see how ALL Wats are so stupid, what a waste!

[@thomasabbott2105]

I wonder if he remembers going to Epstiens Island

[@sorinprandea3829]

Ziua Z va rămâne în istorie o zi glorioasă din istoria umanității ! La fel ca celelalte bătălii care au adus la eliminarea Europei de dictatură și de nazism! Glorie eternă pentru toți eroii care au murit pentru libertate!

[@Evan-hockputer]

This^

[@kerrycalvert2808]

Hanks is a great storyteller, which he confuses with being an amateur historian. Stories that attract interest and are entertaining are not history. Hanks seems to have not taken history seriously when he opines that the threat to democracy that is rearing its head in the US and Europe will be vanquished by the good guys. It was precisely with this deluded understanding of reality that Neville Chamberlain came back from the Munich Conference with the promise of peace in our time, having been totally gullible to the cynical lies that Hitler fed him. The history of the US ultimately defeating evil and improving the world to increase freedom can be easily be reversed by a corrupt Supreme Court and a political apparatus working overtime to restrict voting and implement plans to ignore the election results by inserting fake electors. A Supreme Court that has spent 5 months pondering whether a President is immune from accountability or the law is not going to reverse itself and make rational, legal, and Constitutional decisions in favor of the justice and rule of law. Hanks optimism that things will just work out in the end because .... America .... is just as delusional as Chamberlains peace in our time proclamation. Historians recognize this. Merchants of entertaining movies typically, in history, do not.

[@johnmichaelson9173]

I agree with everything you've written but lest we forget that it was Hitler who declared war on the US. Then & only then did Roosevelt return the favour, that's what brought America into the European war. Everyone is more than thankful for the American men & women who made the ultimate sacrifice for Freedom & Democracy. 🙏

[@josemama428]

To bad we lost the war 😢

[@Evan-hockputer]

Who's "we"

[@LupaBritannica2408]

Masters of the Air was dusgustingly Anglophobic and racist as well as being completely inaccurate about the role of the RAF. Shame on both Hanks and Spielberg.

[@johnmichaelson9173]

Just another in the long line of ridiculous American war TV/Movies. I literally stopped watching the whole genre after U-571 which shamefully ignored the fact that it was a British ship HMS Bulldog who in 1941 before the US even entered WWII captured the Enigma Machine & even more valuable the Code Books which were sent to Bletchley Park & gave six weeks of unfettered access to the German Naval Codes.

[@angloaust1575]

The americans and russians achieved what the french and British failed to do in sept39 An offensive strategy!

[@stevekay5486]

Respect to Mr Hanks

[@jamiejudd8018]

Nice interview could just about site English involvement though🧐🤨😐🇬🇧🔥

[@GMU8]

Europe got flushed down the shit pipe.

[@jkorshak]

How so?

[@Evan-hockputer]

​@@jkorshakWhat do you think?

[@jkorshak]

@@Evan-hockputer I think Europe didn't get flushed down the shit pipe.

[@Evan-hockputer]

@@jkorshak Oh wait, I replied to the wrong comment, my bad.

[@miguelrubio3431]

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[@KennyFoster-b5n]

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.

[@jkorshak]

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.

[@_Ben4810]

It's worth watching the reaction by Fox News' Laura Ingraham & reading the comments of her followers regarding Tom just even being at Normandy. The hate, bitterness, resentment & stupidity of these folks over an acclaimed actor on such a special memorial day is stomach-churning...

[@GeorgePatton645]

Everything in context. Didn’t see her program, but I’m guessing it has something to do with Hanks trying to tie experiencing the actual event and making a movie with loud noises being…a little similar. Lol😂🤪

[@OmahaSand]

Hitler was a Socialist .. and the party fronting Socialism in the USA, is the party that Hanks supports .. the Left. Real simple.. Love Freedom and hate the political ideologies of madmen. Hanks isn't doing that .. Yet trades on those who gave their life defeating the ideologies he embraces. That is the problem.

[@jkorshak]

@@OmahaSand Hitler was a fascist. Here's what Hitler had to say about socialism: “Socialist - I define from the word 'social; meaning in the main ‘social equity’. A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, of efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false. “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler,” December 28, 1938 Sit the fuck down.

[@Frame-313]

The ego of that man. Some one tell him he's an "actor" not a veteran. Stop saluting planes etc. It's almost like stolen valour.

[@nmflyerrobbin5413]

tom hanks lefty woke

[@gdv4612]

Big time

[@jkorshak]

Woke, how so? In what way? #EveryThingIDontLikeIsWoke

[@englishstark6100]

But he can’t remember going to Dat Island 🏝 you know the one

[@amandadexter1689]

That was a rumor that was proven false -- Hanks was not listed anywhere on the flight logs. Google it. But cmon, You really think Tom Hanks of all people would even be friends with Epstein??? Hanks is probably the last person on earth who would have traveled to Epsteins Island.

[@LanaArte-yc1yh]

you're just So Jealous that Tom achieved Great Success in his life (family, career, still doing a great job as an actor and producer)! but you're just nobody achieving nothing..

[@jkorshak]

Still waiting for some sort of proof or evidence of wrongdoing instead of - you know the one - baseless slander because he thinks perp Trump sucks balls.

[@clngfanflyr]

he's just another actor that's all

[@jt.8144]

"Bachelor Party". End of Discussion.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

I never saw that movie. No need to see Tom "Epstein Island" Hanks pretending to be a real man.

[@drdisrespectsburner5777]

😂

[@beegee22]

I like Tom Hanks very much, but the "There's a FedEx delivering my Uber lunch right now" is a bit tone deaf and privileged. Not worthy of the solemnity of the occasion.

[@camouflage962]

ignorants.... !

[@kerplunk38880]

Yes, let's ask woke actors about something they've no idea about at all. What a ridiculous interview.

[@karna1897]

I think colorized documentary about ww2 today are way better than any hollywood films. My opinion. And i saw this movie 3 times in theaters back in the day.

[@matthew-jy5jp]

No I'm sorry if you don't get more reaction out of watching the actual footage and need to watch a movie to get a sense of it, you have brain damage. I'm not saying Is anything about saving private ryan. But nothing is more visceral than the actual footage of these men giving their lives. In fact I can't even believe you said it

[@MnyFrNthng]

Where did you see the actual footage of the d-day other than a few second snippets? Did they show them blowing up or dying while their intestines out in the open?

[@AmericanFlyOnTheWall]

BS

[@waynehersel3965]

Why is Tom Hanks being interviewed? Because he was in a movie about WWII? I watched a movie about WWII. When will a news outlet stick a microphone in my face?

[@BM-uk3sh]

Because as an actor and involved in the production he spoke and interacted with actual veterans of that day. They did a lot of research to try to re-create that part of WW2 as realistic as possible. Mr. Hanks is very knowledgeable of what took place on that day. His thoughts, and views project that. To this day Saving Private Ryan is one of the best movies ever. Not just for the story but for the recreation of the human aspect during that event. As for anyone asking you...well, you sound kind of butt-hurt, so i doubt anyone will asked you anything.

[@virginieb20]

He also produced three miniseries to cover the different aspects of WWII : Band of Brothers, The Pacific and more recently Masters of the Air, to pay tribute to the veterans and put a spotlight on that era. He has donned extensive research on it and talked to so many of the veterans.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

​@@virginieb20All of those productions sadly piss on and mock the efforts of the other allies, particularly the British.

[@michaelahass2695]

​@@lyndoncmp5751 Not true...

[@localbod]

They should have asked him about Albert Blythe

[@pars5027]

And yet America allied itself with the Soviet Union. Who, murdered more people than Germany. And a part of History you were not taught in school. America was allied with Japan in WWI. Digest that for a moment.

[@jkorshak]

It's taught in school. What you weren't taught was the critical application of context as it relates to international events and affairs. For instance, America having friendly diplomatic relations with Japan circa 1917-18 has nothing to do with the rise of Japanese militarism, the Tojo government, or Japanese imperial ambitions circa 1931 and beyond.

[@pars5027]

@@jkorshak Not taught in my public school

[@jkorshak]

@@pars5027 Your public school was garbage or you were a lazy student.

[@pars5027]

@@jkorshak Well, that did not take long. Insulting someone you don't know. You must be a demoNcrat or an internet tough guy. Have a good life.

[@pars5027]

@@jkorshak Amazing how fast the name calling starts. Have a nice life.

[@carlhursh505]

Hanks can ONLY repeat what he hears, because like most cowards, he never served himself.

[@kenthigginbotham9716]

These men would CRINGE at the America hanks wants🤬

[@jkorshak]

What America does hanks want?

[@jaymudd2817]

Why interview a celebrity about D Day? Pure Idiocy.

[@AmericanFlyOnTheWall]

Tom Hanks is not just any celebrity. He knows as much about D-Day as the men who fought.

[@sugarkane4830]

@@AmericanFlyOnTheWallMmmm I doubt that.

[@jaymudd2817]

@@AmericanFlyOnTheWall How many bullets have whizzed by him?

[@Evan-hockputer]

​@@jaymudd2817You should his movies

[@Evan-hockputer]

​@@sugarkane4830That's because you're a brainrot

[@levenscott645]

Fine, Tom, you're a good actor, but don't call yourself an historian. I've changed a lightbulb, but I'm not an electrician.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Greetings. Librarian here. I worked decades in historical bibliographic research in a very specialized history field, for the academic journal of a historical society: several of its members had not titles given by universities, but all of them were historians. If you took decades studying the history of the bulbs, how bulbs were made, their different parts, and you wrote books about bulbs - or made historically correct movies about bulbs - you could call yourself a bulb historian. Tom Hanks didn't just play in a WWII movie once. He has produced several ones, all of them highly accurate. Check his credits. History is a field in which the study and the production makes you into a historian. Tom Hanks' work falls in the realm of history divulgation, in which he has been very effective. Producing a miniseries like Band of Brothers is way more complex than changing a second bulb. Wrong analogy.

[@kimm2265]

3:19 ​@@MariaMartinez-researcher Thank you for writing that. I consider Tom not only a historian, but a major factor on why we finally have the WWII Memorial in DC. He did that by his film Private Ryan. This memorial is special to me as my dad was in WWII. Which he lived through. My favorite one is the Vietnam Memorial, as my oldest brother fought there award the Bronze Star for Valor. Luckily he made it home, but was never the same. He died to young, age 54. When I was in high school we wore bracelets with names and date disappeared. They were MIAs or KIAs. My service man was Capt. Thomas Miller who never did come home. When I'm there, I always lay flowers at his panel. These memorials mean something to a lot of us for all different reasons.

[@john_trimble78]

What an insult to veterans everywhere to have this guy speak on D Day.

[@greggbaker7848]

I agree 100%

[@jkorshak]

Strange, because every veteran I've ever spoken with and listened to seem very appreciative of what this guy has done to bring public awareness to their and their fellow service members' sacrifices.

[@Tkad3504]

Why isn't this man in jail?

[@jkorshak]

Why would he be?

[@sumguyman8656]

I hope so bad that tom hanks and the epstein island thing isn't what it seems to be...weird that someone with such respect and love for these warriors would change his citizenship.

[@hmgbird]

He didn’t change it, he’s still American and was offered and he accepted the Greek one for helping during an extensive fire. He has both and it’s totally legal.

[@scottmarcelsanca9860]

I wonder what these men would have thought of all this crap with gender these days.... I wo der if they would have done the right thing knowing this is what our young people would do with the freedom

[@paulpaterson1661]

Saving Private Ryan an overrated and inaccurate film

[@jkorshak]

Let's see what you've done.

[@beerborn]

The thing that I remember about Tom Hanks dumb comment was way back in 2016 when he said: " Donald Trump will become president is when flying saucers with dinosaurs in red capes will arrive on Earth ". So Tom, I'm still waiting for those damn dinosaurs in red capes to arrive on planet Earth, for the second coming of the Trump presidency.

[@jeffreyedwards5262]

Not English Tom, British. You would have peed off a lot of folk buy that remark.😀

[@ives3572]

"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

[@bernardocea119]

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.

[@jayelliott7278]

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.

[@Arthur54321]

The most emotional piece of film ever...I paraphrase it in my head often... whne I have a challenge.

[@SlobMobGaming]

made me cry tbh great movie

[@chrisbrimhall1613]

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.

[@maryshaffer5675]

One mans ego destroyed millions upon millions. Tom Hanks was right on that.

[@narancauk]

''One mans ego destroyed millions upon millions.''-----Alone??????????????????Hardly!

[@alexandervargas8707]

@putin 👀

[@narancauk]

@@alexandervargas8707 Xelensky ++

[@skyedog24]

​@@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 .

[@narancauk]

@@skyedog24 Hahahahahahahahaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa NO. I WAS!!!Are you a Croat, or Livonian

[@SamanthaOhara-r6l]

It's a respectable Man Tom Hanks what he did ..I wish he was President Of USA

[@Focusonbehind]

That would be amazing.

[@taelee73]

Glad he mentioned all the others who took part in D Day, wasn’t just the Americans.

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

83,000 American Troops 61,000 British Troops 23,000 Canadian Troops.

[@AuxaneST]

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.

[@lornasullivan4409]

​lots of other nationalities of parents nationalities, fought too, Polish, Irish, Greek etc .... Saw their headstones with names yesterday.

[@stephenhill545]

​@@AuxaneST12,000 French troops died in the Normandy campaign. Lest we forget.

[@Paul630sqdrn]

Good point, although the Hollywood producers didn’t give any credit to the British and Canadian’s as usual.

[@rebeccasjodal9769]

We had wars in Europe in the 90's. The Balcan war!

[@narancauk]

It was Germany destroying Yugoslavia ....Like in 1941

[@mebodeck]

@@narancauk Srebrenica 1995 was a german massacre?? Take your pills, man!

[@giakatz4471]

​@narancauk 😂🤡

[@narancauk]

@@giakatz4471 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@Evan-hockputer]

Balkan*

[@billkingston4402]

Well said Sir, meanwhile the British PM buggers off to record an interview

[@bonkerslez91]

As a Brit I can tell you we can’t stand him either guys a weasel

[@nicolad8822]

At these events they are an irrelevancy. The King has cancer he came.

[@SunnyIlha]

The *Centenarians* walk the Earth.

[@iainpompei6480]

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!!

[@aylen3322]

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.

[@piterglinka3629]

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.

[@glenstg]

I think it is great Tom Hanks attended these commemorations, he shows more interest than Rishi

[@nicolelawless9942]

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

[@TheMosinCrate]

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.

[@stevemaynards.g.t]

Tom Hanks is & always the best actor in all movies 😎👌

[@Evan-hockputer]

Facts

[@davidhaynes3126]

🇨🇦

[@Vbluevital]

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.

[@m42037]

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

[@oliabid-price4517]

Average age of the combat soldier during WW2 was 26...

[@paramarky]

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.

[@nicolad8822]

They didn’t travel so far to be honest?

[@willmcallister8464]

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.

[@c123bthunderpig]

Tom Hanks makes movies he us not a Patriot and has no understanding of the sacrifice and bravery men and women make in war.

[@fionathomson4436]

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

[@philmuskett265]

Freedom comes at a hell of a price. Thank God they paid it!!

[@sebcharb7313]

so you can watch netflix all day long

[@hookeye2]

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.