re: #36 goddamnedfrank

The whole point of Saving Private Ryan is that they died needlessly in the hopeless defense of a stupid bridge they were going to blow up anyway. They should have retreated to the other side, blown it up, dropped their pants and shown the Germans their asses.

Not quite. You don’t just abandon a bridgehead. Otherwise somebody else is going to get killed recrossing that river you just gave up. Blowing that bridge is a last resort. Even the Germans waited as long as possible to blow bridges, and they were retreating.