one of the reasons I watch it and enjoy it is that My granddad(pa'pa) went into normandy with the 1st div. he was shot and captured as for as I know(he died a few years ago and never talked about it) around the same time and area of the bulge. So I watch it thinking about how it effected him and how he made it though. Gives me chill bumps everytime I watch.Those boys had it very very hard. REAL heros of this century.