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I heard about this a week or two ago. I've watched the movie countless times, but for some strange reason that I can't remember I never saw it on the big screen. That's going to change on June 2, bought my tickets yesterday. Really looking forward to it, even though the wife is dreading it.....she hates blood and guts war movies.

Crosses must stand By: RICK REISS - For The Californian Many moviegoers will remember the moving scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" showing the thousands of American graves at the Normandy cemetery. The graves exhibit the sacrifice of the American servicemen who perished on D-Day during World War II. These scenes were filmed at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. The cemetery, along with other cemeteries from North Africa to the Philippines, is operated by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The commission is an independent agency of the executive branch of the federal government. Most of these American headstones resting in...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 - Shortly before becoming chairman of the Federal Communications Commission nearly four years ago, Michael K. Powell said it was time to eliminate the double standard that allowed the government to subject broadcasters, unlike their competitors in cable and satellite television, to indecency and other speech regulations. At the time, Mr. Powell received a Freedom of Speech Award for advancing what broadcasters and civil liberties groups viewed as a courageously principled position. Now, he is being harshly criticized for significantly expanding the indecency rules. He blames a quest for higher ratings for the "increasing coarseness" of programming...

This morning I heard a radio caller mention that the Rockford, IL ABC affiliate replaced the Veterans' Day showing of "Saving Private Ryan" with "Born on the 4th of July". I checked the WTVO website (wtvo.com) and it seemed to confirm.

ABC television, backed by Republican Sen. John McCain and other leading conservatives, sought on Thursday to keep nervous affiliate stations from deserting a Veterans Day broadcast of the acclaimed World War Two film "Saving Private Ryan." Several ABC affiliates, including eight stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group and four owned by the Belo Corp. (BLC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , scheduled other programming, citing concerns about profanity and graphic violence in the film. In Dallas, ABC's Belo-owned affiliate, WFAA, broadcast Oprah Winfrey's talk show and the movie "Hoosiers" instead of "Saving Private Ryan" on Thursday night. Sinclair said the recent...

KOCO Will Not Air 'Saving Private Ryan' A Statement From KOCO-TV's President And General Manager "It has been a subject of considerable discussion within our station as to whether 'Saving Private Ryan' is appropriate for broadcast prior to 9 p.m. The movie has been recommended by the motion picture industry itself for mature audiences only due to its language and violent content. Recent discussions by the Federal Communications Commission have established new legal standards for what broadcast stations may and may not broadcast prior to 9 p.m. Until the FCC or the courts clarify those legal standards, we are left...

Before he talked to members of the Geritol Gang about his basketball team, West Virginia University coach John Beilein took the time to thank the veterans among the group of retired coaches and athletes. Beilein knows all about service to one's country. His family is directly involved in one of the most dramatic and best-known stories in U.S. military history. Nearly everyone is familiar with the movie "Saving Private Ryan'' which starred Tom Hanks and was directed by Steven Spielberg. It centers around a family that loses three sons in World War II and the search to locate the fourth...

Remembrance Day in Trudeaupia On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns fell silent. But peace is more than the absence of war. For the last decade, the world has been preoccupied with the messy unfinished business of the Great War, the "war to end all wars" -- first in Yugoslavia, the prototype multi-ethnic utopia, which fell apart along the old ..........