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My favs are (again), "The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan"...how about your favs?
1 posted on 06/06/2010 2:04:06 PM PDT by PROCON
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“The Longest Day” and “Saving Private Ryan”. No contest.


2 posted on 06/06/2010 2:06:10 PM PDT by unkus
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To: PROCON

Private Ryan.


3 posted on 06/06/2010 2:06:33 PM PDT by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: PROCON

The Big Red One


4 posted on 06/06/2010 2:08:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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The Longest Day. Saving Private Ryan had excellent special effects but the plot was ludicrous and had many factual errors per my father who landed on Omaha Beach On D-Day.


5 posted on 06/06/2010 2:08:51 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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The Longest Day.

The Dirty Dozen. (The raid took place on D-Day)


7 posted on 06/06/2010 2:10:22 PM PDT by ILS21R
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To: PROCON

My son and I watched the first two episodes of “Band of Brothers” last night.


8 posted on 06/06/2010 2:11:36 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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Hard to beat the “Longest Day”.

John has a long mustache


9 posted on 06/06/2010 2:12:42 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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The Allied forces face the daunting cliffs at Normandy June 6, 1944.
10 posted on 06/06/2010 2:12:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (11/03/2010 - What did Obama know and when did he know it?)
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"Saving Private Ryan" for the realism portrayed at Omaha Beach - you REALLY could feel what it must have been like for those guys ...

Brig. Gen. Norman Cota (Robert Mitchum) in "The Longest Day" for the following quote:

"Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th."

11 posted on 06/06/2010 2:13:13 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: PROCON

The Longest Day!


12 posted on 06/06/2010 2:16:04 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: PROCON
Has anyone visited Normandy and walked the beaches?
It's high on my list of things to do.
19 posted on 06/06/2010 2:24:27 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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Other than the Military Channel, have not seen much on the left boob tube today re D-Day.


29 posted on 06/06/2010 2:33:28 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Read the Bible. It tells you clearly about these times. These days are all covered, clearly, there)
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To: PROCON

“The Longest Day”


30 posted on 06/06/2010 2:33:40 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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I always liked the scene where the Frenchmen goes crazy waving his flag amidst the bombardment...shouting & laughing with joy, despite the danger. His joy is infectious. I also can't help but laugh about the portly German on the mule with the water cans...he's Goldfinger!
42 posted on 06/06/2010 2:51:24 PM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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Patton.


60 posted on 06/06/2010 4:04:38 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Montani Semper Liberi)
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Part of the problem with modern war movies like Saving Private Ryan is that they are cast with a lot of leftist creeps who, because you are so familiar with their idiotic ruminations about current politics, strike one as simply ludicrous playing the roles of heroic men.

Ted Danson as a D-Day company commander?!?? Give me a break!

John Wayne as Lt. Col. Vandy Vandervoort? Of course!

65 posted on 06/07/2010 5:12:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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My wife can’t understand why I watch war movies. She says they only glorify war. I tell her that they are a great example of the human spirit overcoming incredibly odds and the self-sacrifice that true patriots make so that others may enjoy the freedom that they cherish so much more than life itself.

One of my favorite movies is Patton. The best quote from it is, “No poor dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his.”


68 posted on 06/07/2010 7:14:08 AM PDT by rfreedom4u ("A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.")
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Do you mind if we revive this one?

Or am I still in trouble about the tatoo thingy?..:=)

83 posted on 06/06/2011 7:14:37 PM PDT by PROCON (Liberals Mistake Education and Knowledge for Wisdom and Common Sense.)
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To: PROCON

Same. Longest day was awesome.


86 posted on 06/06/2011 7:26:54 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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To: PROCON

Both good. I love Midway, Big Red One and Tora, Tora, Tora.


89 posted on 06/06/2011 9:13:17 PM PDT by Fledermaus (As long as John Boehner is Speaker, conservatives are screwed. He's a coward and a crybaby.)
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