Opening scene in Saving Private Ryan - is that what war was really like?

[swole]

I also heard it was extremely realistic from a few war vets. Both Saving Private Ryan and a few episodes of Band of Brothers made me tear up. For all you WWII people, check out the book D-Day; I read it after seeing Saving Private Ryan and it solidified my belief that SPR was pretty much a re-enactment of D-Day. If you only knew how many devices, guns, mines, troops, bunkers, mortars and explosives were set on the beaches to prevent the Allied invasion, you wouldn't question the gore in SPR's opening scene.

God Bless the troops, both past and present.

 

[Island Son]

The landing scene in Enemies at the Gate seemed realistic

 

[Gambino]

My father was a 20 year marine, who served in the pacific during WWII and the Korean war, and was in three beach landings. He would tell stories about rickshaw races with his buddies in Shanghai, the pranks that they pulled on each other, and many other times and events, but he never talked about the battles. I know that he never really like war movies, or any movie with lots of blood. I think that he believed that they glorified death, when it is really something far more brutal, and he had seen enough of that for many lifetimes.

props to you dad big4life
call me ignorant but when were US troops in China? i never knew that

 

[big4life]

props to you dad big4life
call me ignorant but when were US troops in China? i never knew that

This site deals with the time my father was there, after WWII.

http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/northchina.html

 

[starfish]

props to you dad big4life
call me ignorant but when were US troops in China? i never knew that

Big4life is an awesome friend on and off these boards. I'm sure his Father was a first class act too.

 

[Dial_tone]

I believe we entered China during the Korean War also.

 

[jackangel]

[rush limbaugh voice]
ladies and gentlemen sublimezm once again proving that not everyone should be an entitled to an opinion.
[/rush limbaugh voice]

 

[buffer1]

that,s as close to war you're gonna get,unless you are in the milatary now

 

[big4life]

Big4life is an awesome friend on and off these boards. I'm sure his Father was a first class act too.

 

[Sub-Zero]

[rush limbaugh voice]
ladies and gentlemen sublimezm once again proving that not everyone should be an entitled to an opinion.
[/rush limbaugh voice]

dude, i feel so popular!


oh, and uh, at least ill be able to vote in a year, being a citizen and all

zing