[DonnDe]

Quite a way to honor our veterans, isn't it?

[steplock]

crappy movie replaced by pro communist movie. Wunderbar!

[cripplecreek]

Our local ABC station ran Saving private Ryan last night.

[JoJo Gunn]

In Nashville it was Hoosiers.

[cweese]

Here in Austin they replaced it with Oprah, followed by one of the Lethal Weapons episodes. Disgusting. I wrote the local affiliate (KVUE) and asked them why they couldn't run a similar movie, eg. The Longest Day, Battle of the Bulge,etc...

[Skooz]

Why don't they just show The Battleship Potemkin?

[A.A. Cunningham]

Born on the 4th of July a.k.a. The Lies of Ron Kovic

[finnman69]

They should show the Longest Day.

[rabidralph]

Steven Spielberg stated that if Saving Pvt. Ryan were broadcast on TV, it would have to run uncut: no language or scene deletions. The networks honored this request the first time the movie ran a couple years ago. This time, the networks seem to be sticking it to the FCC in mock fear of getting complaints from the public. So bleeping out the swear words was not an option for the networks.

[JasonC]

The affiliate here in Boston cancelled "Ryan" too. I don't know what they put on instead, because I will never watch them again. I watched the Halls of Montezuma on cable, instead. Marines on Saipan, decent movie.

[Uncle Vlad]

Last night, my wife and I watched the HBO special, "Last Letters Home," which devoted an hour to loved ones reading the last letters from American soldiers in Iraq. It was profoundly moving.

[Flux Capacitor]

Maybe this is just a case of profound ignorance on the part of WTVO management of the subject matter beneath the pretty title, as with Pat Buchanan playing "Born in the U.S.A." at his campaign rallies. Otherwise....

-Dan

[Spiff]

Born on the 4th of July is nothing less than commie subversive filth. It is an insult to our heroic veterans and their sacrifices to air such sewage.

[fightu4it]

You would think on Veteran's day some of these stations would have been showing Patton. ;^)

[Armedanddangerous]

In charleston wv it was replaced by DIE HARD 2.

What a joke.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

In Lexington, Kentucky we had an Andy Griffith Show marathon! Much better than either Born on the Fourth of July OR Saving Private Ryan!

[sarasota]

Ryan was playing loud and clear out of ABC/Moline, IL.

[uncbob]

Saving Private Ryan was fantasy also

They could have based the movie on some actual historical incident

Band of brothers was MUCH BETTER

[Naspino]

In Atlanta it was replaced with a documentatory on Jimmy Carter

[Gefreiter]

In western MA, we had the worst of all it seems: The Tony Danza Show, back-to-back with the Jane Pauley show.

I think this affiliate went out of its way to air the most asinine programming it could lay hands on.

[quack]

Ya know,down here in the "Bible belt",WAAY TV in Huntsville Alabama played "Saving Private Ryan" un-edited.Aren't we suppposed to be "religious fanatics" that swayed the election?Funny how the liberal "enlightened" cities refused to play it based on the graphic violence and language,but us "Holy Rollers" saw no problem.