Memorial Day Movies

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My "favorite" isn't really a film (it's a Peanuts cartoon, actually) and it's not precisely Memorial Day but close to it. Charles Schulz did a cartoon on "Operation Overlord" called "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?".


Basically, the film picks up after the end of the larger full length feature, "Bon Voyage Charlie Brown" about Charlie's visit to France. Charlie and the gang go to France to visit a family that his father knew from his WWII service. As that film ends, this film picks up. Charlie and Sallie are looking through his picture album of his trip to France. He tells the story about how the gang, while still traveling around France, wound up camping overnight. Linus wakes up for a Midnight stroll and suddenly realizes where they've been camping.





He wakes everyone up in the morning to tell them they were sleeping on the cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach.






The end of the film involves Linus reciting the first stanza of the John L McRae poem "In Flanders Fields."






When I think of Memorial Day, I think of this cartoon.


PS. Schulz himself actually recorded an "Intro" to the cartoon before it was first broadcast on TV that you don't see on the DVDs or anything. I guess this story is appropriate for Memorial Day as Schulz says the original broadcast was
on Memorial Day (05/30/1883).