[Dan in Pasadena]

Jeff, I agree.

When that movie came out I was right in the middle of going through my divorce. I mentioned having seen it to my then teenage kids and telling them I wanted them to see it. My daughter mentioned my then soon-to-be ex didn't want to see it because she heard the first twenty minutes were, "...ew...tooo violent". I remember being so p!ssed off at that.

Those men DIED for us in the face of overwhelming odds and as you put it Jeff, knowing in a few moments they were likely going to be blown to hell and she couldn't watch a FICTIONAL DEPICTION of it?! They had to actually do it and die for you and 50 years later you can't watch an artificial portrayal of it? I found that shameful then and I still do. In my opinon, those opening minutes give us that weren't there and have never faced an enemy in the field the best idea of what war must be like for some that I have ever seen. Its a frightful thing.

Re-read my earlier post. My Dad was on Tinian for the atom bomb missions. I know it changed the way he looked at things the rest of his life.