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...Your article brought back many memories. An especially personal one was the sniper ambush of the 3rd Marine Division on Guam. A Veterans Affairs grave marker for one of those 3rd Division Marines rests in my husband's hometown cemetery. His brother was a victim of those snipers. I look forward to seeing The Pacific. Thank you, Tom Hanks, for sharing the emotional experiences of my generation with today's generation. LaVerne Wolf Lisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

Your article brought back many memories. An especially personal one was the sniper ambush of the 3rd Marine Division on Guam. A Veterans Affairs grave marker for one of those 3rd Division Marines rests in my husband's hometown cemetery. His brother was a victim of those snipers. I look forward to seeing The Pacific. Thank you, Tom Hanks, for sharing the emotional experiences of my generation with today's generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

This constantly running motor hasn’t just helped in college; it may have been the key to building O’Connor’s interest in wrestling from the outset—when the grappler’s 3rd-grade PE teacher noted the future star’s potential...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Champ From The Get-Go | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...starred Hanks) sent him the two-volume, 1,882-page Library of America Reporting World War II: American Journalism (1938 to 1946) as a gift. Hanks grew intensely interested in all things related to the Pacific campaign - not necessarily the big names like Tojo or Ernest King, but the 3rd Marine Division, which was ambushed by snipers at Guam, or the intricacies of Operation Detachment at Iwo Jima. Print journalists like Robert Sherrod (on Tarawa) and Ted Nakashima (on U.S.-Japanese concentration camps) were eye-openers. "I went on a reading rampage," he recalls. "There is a fabulous book called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...meaning that the top of the courses have been rock hard ice while the bottom is mush. Miller grew up skiing in New Hampshire, where conditions often vacillate between icy and slushy, so perhaps it was a perfect test. He paired a 7th place finish in the downhill with 3rd place slalom. "I've been ready and prepared for this all year," he said after the race. But he admitted that he was exhausted after the downhill. Still, he says he didn't think strategize about the slalom. "I wasn't thinking about what I needed to do what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men's Skiing: Bode and the Yanks Own the Mountain | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

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