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Over the weekend, news broke that the alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point scrapped a plan to give the 69-year-old Oscar winner their Sylvanus Thayer Award \u2014 which honors an \u201coutstanding citizen\u201d who did not attend the academy but exemplifies the the values of \u201cduty, honor and country.\u201d The Saving Private Ryan<\/a> actor and Band of Brothers<\/a> producer is a longtime veterans advocate.<\/p>\n According to The Washington Post<\/a>, an alumni association representative explained the move in a statement: \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<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The ceremony was scheduled for later this month. It\u2019s unclear if Hanks will still…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump went after Tom Hanks on Monday after West Point canceled an award ceremony to honor the actor. Over the weekend, news broke that the alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point scrapped a plan to give the 69-year-old Oscar winner their Sylvanus Thayer Award \u2014 which honors an \u201coutstanding citizen\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2006831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2006830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Trump-Slams-Woke-Destructive-Tom-Hanks-After-Award-Ceremony-Canceled.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}