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I emboy, no doubt by now
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missus jency. Untimely death of your
son no words of mine. How do

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we leave the drought that you have
felt his loss tremendously. He was a

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fine soldier and he believed very strongly. But it's no secret anymore that we

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were involved in one of the most
important operations of this wold hell us,

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the one have held us all together. It was always the first fillet here

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came to a clearing era of row
where over four thousand two your husband served

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with a combat whose dangerous duty is
to place itself, which we all chatish

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load. So the loss of mean
and others like him distinct plow. I

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really understand your desire to learn as
much as possible for God in the cretin

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spot, Colonel, I've got something
you should go about. Yes, these

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two men that I do one of
the this one of Omaha Beach Sean Ryan.

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This man at Utah, Peter Ryan. This man was killed last week

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in New Guinea, Daniel right,
the three men of brothers, Sir,

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I've just learned that this afternoon their
mother is going to be getting all three

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telegrams that's not all. There's a
fourth brother, the youngest. He parachuted

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in with one hundred and first Airborne
night before the invasion. He's somewhere in

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Normandy. We don't know where.
Is he alive? We don't know.

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Come with me, I don't know, I don't damn it. All four

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of them were in the same company
in the twenty ninth division, but we

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split them up after the Sullivan brothers
died. On the journal contact with the

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fourth son, James I, he
was dropped about fifteen miles in England,

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near Newville. But that's still deep
behind journal and act. There is no

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way you can know where in the
hell he was dropped. General First reports

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how to ice peak. What shapes
at one hundred and first is scattered all

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to hell and gone. There's miss
drops all over Normandy. Now, assuming

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Private Ryan even survived the jump,
he could be anywhere. In fact,

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he's probably Kia and frankly, Sir
we go sending some sort of rescue mission

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flat heading throughout swarms of German reinforcements
all along our access of advance that they're

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going to be KIA two. That
heart wrenching tragic scene you just heard was

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and is a reality of war.
Mothers and fathers lose sons. Sons and

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daughters lose fathers in families lose loved
ones, all to defend our freedoms that

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we should hold in the highest regard. This week's film encapsulates that tragedy in

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what seven men endured to save just
one so a family would have one remaining

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son. Released in nineteen ninety eight, directed by film maestro Steven Spielberg,

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Saving Private Ryan tells the tale of
Captain John Miller played by Tom Hanks,

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a man tasked with leading the aforementioned
six men on a mission during World War

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Two to retrieve Private James Ryan played
by Matt Damon from behind enemy lines so

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he may be returned home following the
death of his three brothers in the same

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war. Our next two clips show
what Captain Miller is up against. After

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getting their orders, Miller's group is
against the mission. They do not understand

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what is so important about risking their
lives for one soldier. That is when

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Captain Miller explains how gripes work in
the military, and then Captain Miller explains

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why this mission is important. It
is because of the detachment he feels from

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the person he was at home,
and in order to get rid of that

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detachment, he asked to return home
to his family. Do you want to

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explain the math with this to me? I mean, where's the sense of

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risking the lives of the aid of
us to save one guy twenty degrees?

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Anybody want to answer that? Right? It? Think about the poor pastor's

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mother? Hey, doc, I
got a mother, all right? I

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mean you got a mother's sorry,
just got a mother. I bet even

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the captain's got a mother. Well
maybe not the captain, but the rest

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of us got mothers. There's not
the reason why there's but to do and

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die, because that's supposed to in
corporal Huh, what'll i'll supposed to die?

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Is at it? Uncle's talking about
our duty as soldiers. Yes,

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sure, we don't have orders and
we have to fall on That supersedes everything,

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including your mother's, Yes, sir, Thanks sir. Even if you

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think the missions food buster, especially
if you think of missions food ball,

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what's the hooper? Oh? What's
German? Yeah? Never heard of that,

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sir. I have an opinion on
this matter by all means shared with

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a squad over my way. Thank
you, sir. This entire mission is

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a serious misallocation of valuable military resources. I go on, Well, it

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seems to me, sir, the
guy gave me a special gift, made

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me a fine instrumental warfare driving.
Pay attention. Now, this is the

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way to gripe continue Jackson. Well
what I mean by that, sirs?

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He used to put me in the
serious sniper rifle anywhere up to and including

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one mile Adolf Hitler with a clear
line of sight, Sir, back you

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backs fellas War's over. Amen.
Oh that's a brilliant bumpkin. It's the

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captain. What about you? I
mean, you don't grape at all.

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I don't grap to you, riving. I'm a captain. Here's a chat

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of command. The grapes go up, not down, always up. You

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grab to me, I grabed him, my security or officer, so on,

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so on, so on. I
don't gripe to you. I don't

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grape in front of you. You
should know that as a ranger. I'm

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sorry, sir. But let's say
you are on a captain, or maybe

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I was a major. What would
you say that? Well, in that

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case, I say, this is
an excellent mission, sir, with an

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extremely valuable objective sir, worthy of
my best efforts. Sir. Moreover,

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I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother
of Private James Ryan. I'm willing to

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lay down my life. The wives
of my men, especially you arriving to

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these are suffering. He's good.
I love them. And now Captain Miller

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gets personal to pull on me up
to right now? What's it up to?

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But what is it? Three hundred
dollars? I'm a school teacher.

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I teach English composition this little town
called Adlete, Pennsylvania. Last eleven years

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I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High
School, a coach of the baseball team

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in the springtime. Back home and
I tell people what I do for a

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living, and they think, well, now that figures. But over here

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it's a big, big mystery.
So I guess I've changed. So sometimes

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I wonder if I've changed so much
my wife is even going to recognize me

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whenever it is I get back to
her, and how I'll ever be able

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to to tell her about day's light
today? Uh? Ryan, I don't

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know anything about Ryan. I don't
care. Man means nothing to me.

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It's just a name. But if
you know, if going to Rommel and

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finding him so he can go home. If that earns me the right to

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get back to my wife, will
then then that's my mission. You want

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to leave, I'm gonna go off
and fight the war, all right,

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all right, I want to stop
you. I'll even put in the paperwork,

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and just now that every man I
kill the farther away from home.

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I feel there are very many aspects
that make soldiers that have served or currently

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serving the epitome of heroes, and
those that have made the ultimate sacrifice they

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supersede hero status. One of those
aspects is a sense of duty. We

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have heard this throughout our clips thus
far. In our next one it is

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even more evident. Upon locating Private
Ryan Miller tries to get him to abandon

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his post despite learning his brothers are
dead. Despite the low success rate of

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maintaining the post, he refuses to
leave because his orders tell him he must

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stay. This scene concludes with a
powerful speech by Commander Mike Corvath that sets

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the stage for the climactic final battle
in this film. Your brothers were killed

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in combat, which one all yeah, huh on the level, Yeah,

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I'm afraid, so am. I
want to take some time with us.

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There's some place you want to go
and h what's this all about? Ryan

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lost his brothers? Which one all
of them? M hm. You came

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on the way out here to tell
me that you're you're going home. Our

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artists are to bring you back,
bring me back, corpril hand and I

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don't mean even more shorthanded, but
orders are orders, any communication, and

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that when you're going to be believed
up here. Sure there's no way to

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tell. I mean, we have
no idea what's happened in southtime. I

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have my orders too, sir.
They don't include me abandoning my post.

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I understand that. But this changes
things. I don't see that it does,

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sir. The chief of staff for
the United States Army, He says

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it does, sir. Our orders
are to hold this bridge at all costs

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our planes in the eighty second of
taking out every bridge across the murder out

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with the exception of two one of
balloon and this one here we let the

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Germans take it where it is our
foothold now to displace private your OUTFID wants

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to stay. That's one thing.
Your party's over here. Sure, I

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can't leave until at least reinforcements here. You've got three minutes to gather your

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gear, sir, What about them? I mean, there's barely hardly two

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of our guys already died trying to
find you, all right, sir,

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M that's right. What were their
names? Arwen Wade and Andrean Camposo?

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Wade and Camposo doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sensor. Why?

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Why mean? Why do I deserve
to go? Why not any of

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these guys? They all fought just
as hard as me. Is that what

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they're supposed to tell your mother when
they send her another folded American flying Tell

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her that when you around me,
I was here, and I was with

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the only brothers that I have left, and there's no way I was going

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to desert them. I think she'll
understand that there's no way I'm leaving this

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bridge. And now the commander's speech
on why they must save Private Ryan and

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stay on the bridge? What he
orders? How can we hear a cross

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in a strange boundary? Here?
The world has taken a turn for the

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serial, clearly, but the question
still stands. I don't know, what

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do you think? You don't want
to know what I think? No,

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mink I do well? Part of
me? Thanks the kid's right, what's

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he done? Do deserve this?
He wants to stay here? Fine,

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let's leave them and go home.
Yeah, but another part of me thanks,

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What if, by some miracle we
stay and actually make it out of

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here. Someday we might look back
on this and decide that saving Private Ryan

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was the one decent thing we were
able to pull out of this hole,

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god awful mess. That's what I
was thinking, sir. Like you said,

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Kevin, we do that. We
all learned the right to go home.

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This film has been heralded since its
release. Veterans of World War Two

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have said it's the most realistic depiction
of the battles that were fought. This

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includes the twenty five minute opening battle
scene on the beaches of Normandy. Spielberg,

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in making this film, sought consultation
from known World War Two writer Steven

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Ambrose, whose work was eventually adapted
into the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.

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Its reception was also of note.
It was the second highest grossing film of

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nineteen ninety eight, earning four hundred
and eighty one point eight million dollars.

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It was the highest grossing video rental
of all time. It garnered five Academy

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Award nominations, including Best Picture,
Best Actor for Hanks, and Best Director

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for Spielberg. It won three,
including Best Director. The fact that it

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did not win Best Picture, Shakespeare
in Love took home the award that year,

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is considered one of the greatest upsets
in the history of the Academy Awards.

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This is not just a simple war
movie, or even a great war

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movie. It is one of the
greatest films ever made of any genre bar

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none. It's realism, performances in
everlasting legacy make it a film that truly

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shows us what Memorial Day is for
remembering those that made the greatest sacrifice for

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every citizen of this great country.
This film is the epitome of showing us

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that it must be seen by everyone
at any time. I hope you join

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me next week when we will look
at the classic James Dean performance Rebel without

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a Cause to close and honor those
this weekend that made that ultimate sacrifice so

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we all may sleep comfortably in freedom
and have the rights we cherish. I

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feel it appropriate to share the words
that truly speak on the sacrifice these brave

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men and women made and continue to
make, spoken by then President Ronald Reagan

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in nineteen eighty five for WMNH and
Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has been a

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classic film review with Eric Pilcher.
Sometime back I received, in the name

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of our country, the bodies of
four marines who had died while an active

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duty. I said then that there
is a special sadness that accompanies the death

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of servicemen, for we're never quite
good enough to them. Not really,

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we can't be, because what they
gave us is beyond our powers to repay.

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So when a service man dies,
it's a tear in the fabric,

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a break in the hold. All
we can do is remember. It is,

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in a way an odd thing to
honor those who died in defense of

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our country, in defense of us
in wars far away. The imagination plays

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a trick. We see these soldiers
in our mind as old and wise.

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We see them as something like the
founding Father's grave and gray haired. But

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most of them were boys when they
died, and they gave up two lines

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that when they were living and the
one they would have lived when they died.

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They gave up their chance to be
husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They

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gave up their chance to be revered
old men. They gave up everything for

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our country, For us. We
owe them a debt we can never repay.

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All we can do is remember them
and what they did, and why

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they had to be brave for us