More War Movies

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2012)

Besides Blackhawk Down and Saving Private Ryan there's also Pearl Harbor, Tora Tora, Tora, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, The Longest Day, Patton, band of Brothers, A Little Walk In The Sun, Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen, The Flying Tigers, Tears of The Sun, and Heartbreak Ridge to name a few.
Except for Tears of The Sun and HeartbreakRidge all the above mentioned are WWII movies. There are other movies dealing with our civil war such as Gettysburg and Glory and our Revolutionsry War such as The Patriot, April Morning, My Brothers War, and Shennandoah.
Blackhawk Down, however, is contemporary and most of us can relate to that. Evan still we Americans are slow to remember. During the attack on Pearl Harbor over 3,000 Americans were killed and today over 1100 men lie entombed in the Battleship Arizona. On 9/11 between the two trade towers, the Pentagon and shanks field in Pennsylvania a little over 3,000 Americans were killed.
While Blackhawk Down is a great movie and part of American history and culture so was Pearl Harbor and 9/11. But what have we Americans learned from them?