Double-u Double-u Two

It is a strange thing to be watching "The Longest Day" on Netflix. When it was made, D-Day was only 18 years in the past. From right now, that's 1998; according to Wikipedia, that includes a shocking number of wars I didn't know about, but also the Kosovo War and the Civil War in Afghanistan. It's not that long ago.

When I was a kid I played with toy soldiers, and enacted imagined battle scenes not too different from what I see play out in this movie. It's not so much that it was wrong to play like that; it's more that I was so grossly ignorant of what that really meant. Trouble is, there's no way to convey that to a nine year-old. There's little that could have been different then, and little that could be different now.