{"id":205684,"date":"2025-09-06T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:58:15","slug":"west-point-abruptly-cancels-tom-hanks-award-ceremony-on-same-day-trump-renames-dod-to-department-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205684\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point abruptly cancels Tom Hanks award ceremony on same day Trump renames DoD to \u2018Department of War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alumni at\u00a0West Point\u2019s US Military Academy<\/a>\u00a0abruptly canceled an upcoming award ceremony for actor veterans advocate Tom Hanks\u00a0\u2013 one of President Biden\u2019s most impassioned celebrity supporters who once said that if President Trump won a second term it proved that America\u2019s \u201cjourney to a more perfect union has missteps in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision allows the Academy to continue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world\u2019s most lethal force, the United States Army,\u201d read an email dispatched Friday by Retired Army Col. Mark Bieger to alumni, per The Washington Post. <\/p>\n

\"TomAlumni at West Point\u2019s US Military Academy reportedly canceled an upcoming award ceremony for Tom Hanks. Adela Loconte\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\"WestThe alumni cited the need to return the academy\u2019s core mission to be the world\u2019s \u201cmost lethal force.\u201d AP<\/p>\n

Hanks was scheduled to be honored on Sept. 25 with the Sylvanus Thayer Award, dedicated to recognizing an \u201coutstanding citizen\u201d that did not attend West Point but still exemplifies the academy\u2019s ideals of \u201cDuty, Honor, Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The email did not state whether Hanks would still be receiving the award at a different time, or whether it had been revoked, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Asked on CNN last year if he worried about country\u2019s \u201ccommitment to democracy and freedom\u201d if Trump was reelected, Hanks said. \u201cI think there\u2019s always reason to be worried about the short term.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I look at the longer term of what happened I think there\u2019s an ongoing \u2014 look, our Constitution says, \u2018We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,\u2019 \u2014 that journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n

In 2021 Hanks hosted Biden\u2019s prime-time TV special. <\/p>\n

And in 2022, the \u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d actor narrated a video in 2022 of the Biden administration\u2019s accomplishments in its first year, insisting the country is \u201cstronger than we were a year ago today.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bieger\u2019s email was sent the same day Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War telling reporters that he thinks it \u201csends a message of victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very important change because it\u2019s an attitude,\u201d he said of the move away from the word \u201cdefense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of War was originally renamed in 1947 after WWII to be the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alumni at\u00a0West Point\u2019s US Military Academy\u00a0abruptly canceled an upcoming award ceremony for actor veterans advocate Tom Hanks\u00a0\u2013 one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,61263,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,25169],"class_list":{"0":"post-205684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-tom-hanks","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-us-news","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-west-point"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115158890113843567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}