Of course not. Most fictionalized recountings of actual events would not be nearly as powerful if they were pure fiction. Do a global search-and-replace for appropriate words in, say, Judgement at Nuremberg, and it'll be much less powerful; Band of Brothers will become not only less powerful, but absurd (I mean, come on -- a single company being at, and playing a significant or even key role in every major event in Europe in WWII from D-Day on? That's jumping the shark -- except, of course, for the fact that it's true).

Or consider Joshua Chamberlain -- not just at Little Round Top, but later rising from what his doctors said was his death bed . . .

And so forth.

A reason that this movie quite clearly scares some people is the fear that it might be imperative -- that it's not merely a bunch of folks doing a bunch of things, not simply matter in motion, but it's an object lesson that might inform future behavior; an infectious historical meme, like, say, Thermopylae or Masada or Roarke's Drift, or Lexington and Concord, or American history balanced on the shoulders of a middle-aged rhetoric teacher ordering an exhausted, horribly depleted regiment to fix bayonets . . .

I dunno. Maybe they've got something to worry about.

I'd like to think so, but what happens very irregularly corresponds to what I'd like to have happen.