Having stepped from the surreal to something beyond, Miller and his Rangers decide to stay themselves and to help fight off the German assault. What follows is an epic that is filled with heroism, cowardice, triumph, and fear. These are not cinematic, gung ho heroes who seem impervious to fear and human frailties. These are just ordinary men, most not much more than boys, who once upon a time were asked to save the world. Spielberg does them and us a service to show them as they truly were. It enhances rather than detracts from the glory of what they did and the horror of what they endured.