It's the upcoming week of the of the celebration, if celebration is the proper word of the D-Day invasion. If you didn't know this event was the the most deadly of any attack.
Saving Pvt. Ryan is considered to be one of the all-time greatest war movies ever made. In it's honor 600 theaters around the country are showing the film.
As you know there was a law instituted in wartime 1942 that brothers were not to be in the same unit. This was enacted due to five brothers, the Sullivans, who died on the ship the U.S.S. Juneau.
Four brothers from Tonawonda New York enlisted. When three of them were pronounced KIA the government decided to get the fourth out of the combat zone. In reality their last name was Niland, not Ryan.
Furthermore it wasn't Tom Hanks and his crew who rescued the fourth. It was an Army Chaplin who sauntered into his unit and harmlessly took Fritz Niland back to England. From there he was sent state side and served out the war as an MP.
You do know what this means, right? Tom Hanks died for nuthin'.
As a post script one of the brothers survived, He was found in a Japanese camp a year after the war was concluded and survived his ordeal.
It makes for good box office. How many ticket holders would see a film where a guy becomes an MP?
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