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Tom Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the...
The premise of Hanks as history maker seemed reasonable until I flipped the page and found a two-page ad for The Pacific, the miniseries from Time Warner's HBO. TIME's objective news judgment has been seriously compromised by an act of such corporate self-promotion.
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...
And he is pleased that The Pacific has fulfilled an obligation to our World War II vets. He doesn't see the series as simply eye-opening history. He hopes it offers Americans a chance to ponder the sacrifices of our current soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. "From the outset...
There's no such thing as a definitive history. But what was once a passing interest for Hanks has become an obsession. He's a man on a mission to make our back pages come alive, to keep overhauling the history we know and, in the process, get us to...