Timewatch: Bloody Omaha

[Viper007Bond]

This thread should properly really be in the "TG Hosts Show" section.

and tbh it could just be tagged onto the end of the thread for Bloody Omaha

Indeed. Threads merged.

[Alasondro Alegré]

Earlier today at another forum, I saw that making-of vid posted as something like "Amateur director and three friends recreate opening scene of Saving Private Ryan"

[BigVern]

I just watched the show and I have to say it was very moving. I love programs like this one that have the veterans tell what it was like and not just what happened. Anyone can read about the events in a book but, sadly, you can only get the feeling of it from a man getting choked up thinking back to his friends and how they were lost. The shot of Arlington Cemetery at the end was particularly moving. I had never realized the sheer size of the place and to realize that every white speck represents a person and even all that is just a tiny fraction of what was lost. It's just staggering.

Very True, However the cemetery at the end of the show isn't Arlington, it's the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, on the high ground above Omaha beach. I was there about this time last year, and it is indeed huge (there are just under 10,000 graves there, all laid out in such a way that from any cardinal angle you look at the graves on the ground, all of the graves are in a straight line).