If you liked Saving Private Ryan, you will like Flags of Our Fathers. The battle scenes on the island made me wonder how anyone came home alive from this place. Lots of bullets whizzing through the air, and more than enough blood and gore to remind us what war is really like. The back story about the raising of the flag provides an occasional breather from the intensity of the gun battles. I need to read more about this movie to understand how much of the story was based on fact. The main storyline follows the soldiers who raised the flag on Iwo Jima and were immortalized in one of the most famous war time photographs. If you can sit and watch this one with your teenager, it might help them appreciate what their grandparents or great-grandparents lived through. We have lost the widespread patriotism and will to sacrifice that defines this war time generation.