Every year, on Memorial Day, multiplex theaters across the United States should dedicate their biggest screen and their best sound system to showings of Saving Private Ryan.

No other film I’ve seen shows the terrible face of war nearly as well as this one. Everyone old enough to vote should see it. It’s an education for those fortunate enough never to have served in battle themselves.

No television can do this movie justice. This is what the big screen was made for.

It would be a fine Memorial Day tradition to try, year after year, to understand the sacrifices that have been made to safeguard our country and our liberty.