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just to show -- tnt made a made-for-tv movie. tom selleck is eisenhower in a movie called "ike: countdown to d-day." this was to show that everyone at this point was so interested in telling these d-day stories, it was so popular and prevalent that tnt even got into the game. a very americanized tale of the event. the one significant british character portrayed is bernard montgomery. they get the details of an argument he had with eisenhower wrong. i don't need to go into the specifics. but the point is the result of this movie is that d-day becomes an entirely american tale, where the british seem completely and utterly opposed to the event. so, what does all this tell us? in the end, how we show the story has changed somewhat. i would like us to think about that for a second. the shift in the upper left-hand corner from allusion. at the end, we have circled all the way around clockwise. we are no longer alluding. we are very visibly and very graphically showing you what this cost. the point has remained largely stable. the reas