"Cub Driver" wrote:

You know, it might have been the old vet weeping by the graveside that
did in SPR for me. That was a flag. Whoops! What's this all about! The
horror of war, one more time?

I found the scene moving. It seemed to be about a man mourning the friends
he'd lost and perhaps his own lost youth. I never got the idea it was an
anti-war movie: Spielburg and Hanks are both known to be great admirers of
WWII veterans. Hanks' character reminded me of the combat vet's I have
known; ordinary guys who did the job they were asked to do without a lot of
fuss.

The whole film seemed to me to be about sacrifice--how terrible and noble it
is to give one's life for a cause. The reading of Lincoln's letter
absolutely broke me up.

--
Dan

"The opposite of science is not religion; the opposite of science is wishful
thinking."
-John Derbyshire