connection to the film and shares stories about historian stephen ambrose, a consultant on ," and theivate ryan museum's early founder. mr. mueller also talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy today. this 35-minute event was part of a symposium held at the national world war ii museum to mark the 20th anniversary of the film's release. >> welcome back everybody for

connection to the film and shares stories about historian stephen ambrose, a consultant on ," and theivate ryan museum's early founder. mr. mueller also talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy today. this 35-minute event was part of a symposium held at the national world war ii museum to mark the 20th anniversary of the film's release. >> welcome back everybody for our final session of the day, last and certainly not least. early this morning we mentioned that yesterday was the 74th anniversary of d-day, a slightly less known birthday is the fact that it was also the 18th birthday of the national world war ii museum. this originally opened in the -- in june of 2000. we now have a designation as the national world war ii museum, and we are just starting to grow. everything we see today that we are surrounded by, all of this wonderful construction that continues, it is really a testament of honor, respect and admiration that we have for the men and women who served in the world war ii years. many people have put a lot of their lives, a lot of hard wo