Hal Lindsey Ministries

This scene from Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan takes place about half an hour into the movie. Most of that first half hour featured a visceral, ocean-and-sand-level view of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. The 1962 film, The Longest Day, gave huge, sweeping panoramas of that world-changing event. But Steven Spielberg brought us in close. He filled our eyes and ears with the terrible sights and sounds of war — a baptism by immersion into an environment thick with the horror of men dying and of death impending.