Our young men sacrificed their lives for who?

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 1999)

While waiting in line to see SPR I struck up a conversation with an older gentlemen in his 70's. He had participated in D-Day. Though in the 2nd wave, he saw the results of the hell the 1st wave of men lived through. At the end of the movie I saw him seated unable to move, crying, while his wife held his shoulders. I realized I was crying too. I'll never look at another person in his 70's/80's the same way again, and for that I thank Steven Spielberg.
I have read most of the previous reviews and have found a common thread: most of the negative reviews are from europeans. The same europeans our young men spilled their guts and blood to liberate. The same europeans we saved after the war with the Marshall Plan. The same europeans who now complain and criticize about the "patriotism" of SPR. The same ungrateful, hypocritical europeans who so easily forget that it is Americans who are buried under those countless white crosses and Star of Davids'. The amazing thing is that we are still sending young Americans overseas to save their sorry a$$e$.