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As a high school history teacher, who does a class on WWII, I always show Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, Several episodes of the Band of Brothers. I also show a few scenes from Pearl Harbor because its crap and all the kids have seen it. I stop it alot and point out the problems. I love Tora...

In my WWII class in the High School where I teach I always use the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and the Jump Scene, Night of Nights episode, of the Band of Brothers. Great scenes both are pretty realistic, as far as I know anyway. I also like the scene in the Band of Brothers just...

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Love it! Go every year and now my daughter and nephews are old enough to go as well!

I believe that, as Historian James McPherson has stated, Lee suffered from the Chancellorsville syndrome. The attack on day 3, Pickett's Charge, crushed his army. Lee believed that his army could do anything. No Union commander had effectively battled him and he launched his army against an...