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per chi come me e' cresciuto a pane e film sulla II guerra mondiale, lo sbarco in Normandia rappresenta sicuramente uno dei momenti piu' rappresentati sullo schermo (da The Longest Day a Saving Private Ryan).
eppure nessun film potra' mai farci capire (e sentire) l'orrore e la paura di coloro che 65 anni fa dovettero, volenti o nolenti, sacrificare la loro vita in quel modo.
a mio avviso la societa' attuale sta perdendo una delle cose piu' fondamentali che una democrazia possa avere - la memoria storica. non credo alla mitizzazione del passato, ma sono convinta che una societa' che dimentica le proprie origini vive male il presente e rischia di non avere prospettive future.

if younger generations grew up with Vietnam movies, I grew up with WW II films. one of the most filmed moments of WW II is surely D-Day. yet no celluloid masterpiece can even get close to making us feel the horror and fear that hundreds of thousands of young men must have felt that day, most of them dragged into a war so far away from home, in places they probably could not have located on the map.
It's my impression that contemporary society is losing its historical memory - one of the most precious assets in a democracy.
I don't think one should live regretting "the good old times" but I strongly believe that a society that forgets or denies its roots and its past will surely have problems in the present and won't be able to create acceptable living conditions for future generations.