I'm a doctor at a VA Hospital

Rating: Null/10 (18 March 2004)

and this movie affected the way I view my patients. These aging men (and by now they are in their 70s and 80s) were the ones that were there when we needed them.
Subsequent to the movie, both Hanks and Spielberg helped to inaugurate the National D-Day Museum here in New Orleans.
That this monumental work lost to the idiotic "Shakespeare in Love" as Best Picture for 1998 demonstrates the moral ineptitude of the Oscar process. For this reason alone, I don't watch the Academy Awards anymore.
Whenever I have to get up in front of a veterans organization to give a talk, I think of this movie and get a little choked up.