Welcome back to Morning Joe, this is a part of our show we do it everyday（Yeah）. Speech therapy with Tom Brokaw, Tom, thank you so much for being with us. Tom. So, we brought him in because we care about you. (I am here to play the part of Forrest Gump this morning). You are a member of the family we’ve brought in a specialist to help you break up your syllables and pronounce your consonants. Tom Hanks.
I really have to be careful with show business because the person you made fun of last night on nationwide television, you’ll now have to apologize to in the morning on nationwide television, Tom had every respect for everything (If we had anything to do with that…Tom Hanks)
So, welcome to the show.
Nice to be here.
You know…
It's mayhem, it’s like a ping out party first thing in the morning. What’s the topic we’re gonna batter about.
You are in the Wisconsin, you have no idea who we are, but we love you.
You are in the Wisconsin, you have no idea who we are, but we love you.
I periodically, I’ve seen you in hotel rooms around the countries.
Yeah, well, (Oh, I don’t, we should talk about that part) you know, you and a lot of other people, but that’s another story. But Katy knows nothing about it. So let’s talk about…
By the way, go after the Katy. That’s always good, that’s a good journalist. That was a surprised By the way, go after the Katy. That’s always good, that’s a good journalistic avenue for… That was a prized footage, that was called, that was called, ur, what they call it? A scoop.
Yeah, that is a scoop. So what you wait, let’s talk about The Pacific. Band of Brothers like, I think, Tom and I were talking about how Band of Brothers I think touched so many Americans and especially it help get lot of us through a really tough time (Yeah) 9/11. You now released “The Pacific”, and when my wife and I saw a billboard in New York, I almost started tearing up, just look “Oh, my god”. How do you follow up something that was as special as Band of Brothers to so many people?
Well, it’s the stories. I constantly read history particularly read the stories of that era that I am somewhat connected to, because I was born in 1956, so everybody that was, every grown-up that I knew as I was growing up had a distinct connection to these times of war.
Your dad fought them?
My dad, well, my dad fixed things in the war. My dad was a machinist, he hated being in the navy, he didn’t have it, there was nothing romantic about it for him. But, his life was uprooted and for five years he didn’t know where he was gonna be, for how long he was gonna be there. But we found the stories of these memoirs. That is the Eugene Sledge's and Robert Leckie's. And it just so happened that they were in the same place at the same time for a while.
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