I started watching "Band of Brothers" on video. It's a 10 part series that was on HBO a few years ago. It was produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. I think that it is much better than "Saving Private Ryan". It focuses on Easy company, one of 9 companies that made up the 101st Airborne during WWII; the Screaming Eagles - Death From Above. They parachute behind enemy lines and provide support for landing divisions. The death rate was calculated as 150% which is possible because of all the replacements to the ones who died before. There is one scene where they are parachuting into Normandy at night as the precursor to the D-Day invasion that is just incredible. The enemy is lighting up the sky from ground fire and you get a real sense of what it must have felt like to be there. It's too bad that we can't learn from series like these that war should be avoided, if at all possible. Nobody really wins; what's left are just those who manage to survive.