Omaha Beach

How do movies like Stephen Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' portray the carnage on the beaches of Normandy June 6, 1944?

Why do you think it is so hard for veterans of D-Day to watch this scene 70 years later?  Discuss.

Have we become 'desensitized' to this kind of 'movie violence?'

What 'debt' do we owe the soldiers who stormed the beach that day?

Write a letter of thanks to the Veterans of WWII.  (1 page)  What would you say to them?  Why are you grateful?  Would you do the same?

Is letter writing becoming a lost art?  Why?  What is being done to preserve it?