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We just returned (on 9/11, ironically) from France where, among other places, we visited the D-Day beaches in Normandy. We experienced the American cemetery above Omaha Beach (where the very opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan" appears to have been filmed) and the British cemetery in Bayeaux, a few miles away.
As moving as it was to stand there, we were acutely aware of the quiet, the peace, the calm serenity of these hallowed places. Quite unlike the way they were in June, 1944.
If Ken Burns can bring back even a minor echo of the sound and the fury of this monumental conflict, we will all be wiser for it.
It sure would be nice if someone could figure out, and film, a way to eliminate war as a policy option.
