HAPPY VETERANS’ DAY: Some thoughts from Marc Danziger.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I’m a long-time reader and active duty Army infantryman who’s been to Iraq twice…

So today is Veteran’s Day… all day on many cable TV channels they’ll be showing classics like “The Longest Day”, “Patton”, and “A Bridge Too Far”… It’s a shame they don’t make ’em like this anymore. When Hollywood deigns to make a war flick, it usually goes for the squad- or platoon-sized navel-gazer, instead of for the cast of thousands epic that communicates the enormous scope of any military effort, in which even Sean Connery can get cast as a machinegunner with only 10 minutes of screen time.

Methinks with a Democrat back in office, patriotism and Hollywood will re-discover each other. While it may be too soon to do the War on Terror justice (Blackhawk Down wasn’t made until 8 years after the fact), here’s hoping we see Bruce Willis, Russell Crowe, Gerard Baker, and/or Daniel Craig in something soon that celebrates the Western military tradition in the 20th or 21st Century.

Sort of sad that three out of four of those tough guys aren’t even American…

Yeah.