The West Point Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy have cancelled a ceremony where they were going to award the Sylvanus Thayer Award for 2025 to actor Tom Hanks. The ceremony is cancelled, but there is no word whether the award is cancelled also, or just the ceremony. The Sylvanus Thayer award is presented to a “distinguished” “American” citizen who embodies the West Point’s concepts of “Duty, Honor and Country”. The Thayer Award has been presented since 1958.
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