That supersedes everything, including your mothers.Įven if you think the mission's FUBAR, sir? We all have orders, and we have to follow 'em. Upham's talking about our duty as soldiers. What the fuck is that supposed to mean, Corporal, huh? We're all supposed to die, is that it? La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la. "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." Well, maybe not the captain, but the rest of us got mothers. I mean, shit, I bet even the captain's got a mother. Hey, Doc, I got a mother, all right? I mean, you got a mother. Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother. You wanna explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense of riskin' the lives of the eight of us to save one guy? I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men - especially you, Reiben - to ease her suffering." I'd say, "This is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir, worthy of my best efforts, sir. let's say you weren't a captain, or maybe I was a major. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. Hey, so, Captain, what about you? I mean, you don't gripe at all? if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir. Well, it seems to me, sir, that God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare. Well, from my way of thinking, sir, this entire mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources. Well, by all means, share it with the squad. I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. You want to leave? You want to go off and fight the war? All right. If that earns me the right to get back to my wife, then that's my mission. You know if going to Rumelle and finding him so that he can go home. And how I'll ever be able to tell her about days like today. Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even going to recognize me, whenever it is that I get back to her. But over here, it's a big, a big mystery. Back home, I tell people what I do for a living and they think well, now that figures. I was a coach of the baseball team in the springtime. The last eleven years, I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. in this little town called Adley, Pennsylvania.
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