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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
On the eve of D-Day, three brothers – the Ryans, an Iowa Farm family – are killed on different battlefields within days of each other.
When the allied commander discovers that there is a fourth Ryan brother out there somewhere, the decision is made to find him and return him home immediately to his grieving mother.
A unit of eight soldiers, commanded by Capt. John Miller, is ordered to find and return Private James Ryan.
So begins what many are calling the finest war movie ever made, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and his men must forge behind enemy lines to find the young Ryan.
It is a dangerous, costly journey.
The platoon questions the sanity of their mission – eight guys risking their lives to save one guy?
“Hey, we got mothers, too!” one soldier protests. After the bury one of their buddies who is killed By German sniper fire, Captain Miller himself says, “Ryan better be worth it. He better go home and cure some disease or invent a new longer-lasting light bulb.”
Without giving away too much of the movie, Ryan is found by Miller and his men. But before they can head out, Miller, Ryan and the platoon must defend a strategic bridge against a German tank squad.
At the end of the battle, Ryan is all too aware of the price Miller and his men have paid in order to find him and return him home.
Ryan asks the same question the platoon has wondered from the beginning – is one guy worth all this?
The captain’s parting words to Private Ryan are this simple challenge: “Earn it.”
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