NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — In honor of the 81st anniversary of D-Day, the MacArthur Memorial will hold a free screening of Saving Private Ryan on Friday.
Dr. Tim Orr, Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University, will present the 1998 film and discuss D-Day in the context of “reel” vs “real” history.
The film is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Matt Damon. It opens with the Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day and follows a group of soldiers on a mission to find and bring home a soldier whose brothers have been killed in combat…