Perhaps what really irritated Art was that Tom Hanks was a 1990s
character suffering all the 1990s hangups, magically transported back
to 1944. He wasn't even my contemporary, never mind Art's. The things
that weighed on his soul just wouldn't have weighed on the soul of
that 1940s captain who'd gone through the Great Depression and the
years leading up to Omaha Beach.

I looked at the whole squad and flashed back to Lee Marvin in "The Dirty
Dozen". He was two years older than Hanks when he made that and he looked like
he could have taken on the whole bunch singlehanded.
The story was based on a real episode related in Ambrose's "Citizen Soldiers"
or "Band of Brothers"--a paratrooper whose brothers had been killed was taken
out of combat--but the searcher was a chaplain, on his own. THAT might have
made a better movie, and a better role for Hanks, but they seem to have wanted
to remake a "Combat" episode with a big budget.