Luke C Well said. I couldn’t have said it better.

Well said

Amen brother.

Yeah like she noticed that a Ryan is dead. Then notices a similar Ryan is dead. It'd definitely triggered her motherly instinct

@@daoyang223 she noticed how they were going to the same woman. the mother

+Robert Hickson This scene brings me to tears every time. I put myself in her shoes and the tears fall,that's a great scene with impact. I felt it.

And seeing the priest step out...

I remember the day the car stopped in front of my house. 27 April 2011

A J Mc Laughlin How could you not , it has made an indelible stamp in your memory That was a life altering moment ..

+SCE2AUX2 I always lose it at that point - she sees him and her knees give way. no one has to say a word.

Yes

Watched D-Day commemorations yesterday, every time I watch this movie, the scene of those men arriving at Mrs Ryan’s house gets to me. 😢

@@noirjacques3274 I did the same. As a purple heart Vietnam vet it may surprise some that the extra burden of how the folks at home would handle our demise was like a 400 lb boulder on our backs. We talked about it, even joked about it, but it was no laughing matter. We even drew up tombstones for each other. Some times we were offered body escort fro a KIA to their home. Never. I would rather stay in the field.

@@dbeaus 👍- I’m Australian, and when we have our annual ANZAC day commemorations, including marches and services at the memorial shrines across the country. On tv, we show these march of Veterans from many a conflict, we lost one of our last ANZAC’S (those who arrived at Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915) in recent years. My grandfather fought with the 4th Light Horse in Beersheba in 1917. I finally got myself to a Dawn Service, one of those commemorative services, a couple of years ago- so incredibly moving. Much respect to you and all veterans for your service. 🙏🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧

Yes I do and I am Canadian it's a great movie and one of my favorites...this poor lady...I still tear for her and i'm a old man.

Love it...❤❤

There were some members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion who lied about their poor eyesight. As their Higgins boat approached Utah Beach, they put their glasses on. ❤

Wow, God Bless your Dad !!

Yes. Your Dad, wow. My Dad too. I was in the Marine Corp, pencil pusher. I don't consider myself a real Marine. The real servicemen we're in the Shit. Blessings to the memory of your Dad.

Your father, like mine, was a true warrior.

😢😢😢😢😢 NO!! Jesus Christ help me 😫😫😫😫

people don't talk that way anymore...

@@hongo3870 Mainly because they're both stupid AND ignorant...

I really love the way Harve Presnell portrays General Marshall. His voice, so low and clear, clearly sets the way for the rest of this film. I believe this was one of Mr. Presnell's final films if not the last. Harve Presnell, they don't make any more like this, he was a true artist and master of his craft.

@@WMJCPA he did 11 films after, his last in 2010, but they were very small roles, though his role in SPR was also fairly small to be fair.

Yeah....just like I knew exactly why the USAF chaplain was coming up the stairs to our door back in May 1983. Though my younger brother's death wasn't due to combat, he was still gone just the same.

Wondering which son she has lost, only to find out she has lost 3 of her 4 sons.

I tear up every time I see it

I perceive that a GENERAL was sent due to the gravity of the tragedy.

@@markwilken2492 I haven't been able to watch that scene since the first time I saw this movie. I skip past it now.....

That president is held in awe. Illiquent, humble, powerful. The pride of that moment. 🌹

I thought it was brilliantly read and recited by the actor Harve Presnell. I wonder how many takes Speilberg required before the scene was perfect.

Handwriting experts believe that it was written by John Hay.

That and the scene of his mother seeing the priest and her reaction to sit down.

Noticed how General Marshall stopped reading directly from Lincoln's letter 2/3 through....he had it memorized. Nice touch in the film.

Indeed. I’m English and always just wrote this off as overly sentimental patriotism but now I’ve learned a lot about George C Marshall, I think he probably would have reacted that way.

@@johnwheatley5641 GCM beloved stepson was killed in Italy on May 29th 1944. In real life around D-Day he would have experienced all the grief that the fictional Mrs. Ryan would feel. Indeed he would have no problem reciting the Bixby letter as this might be his real feeling on June 7th: "I might share with you some words which have sustained me through long, dark nights of peril, loss, and heartache." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Marshall

I have heard that the actor memorized all that and still could barely get it out because it just about broke him. O7

I love that Spielberg didn't bother with exposition in this scene. The General didn't have to actually say that he'd read that letter countless times, which he obviously had. It was just understood in his delivery;

What a burden. That you can recite Lincoln’s words from heart. And mean it too. “We are going to get him the hell out of there.”

Yes. A great scene

Yup.

🇺🇸🙏🏽✝️

I thought the background music in Private Ryan and Band of Brothers is perfect

Artifacts like Lincons letter are lost in today's time. Sold off to pay this and that. Unfortunately with knowledge at our finger tips. Memorizing powerful notes like this becomes very rare.

@Zip Zenac this part "isn't just a movie", the letter is a true story.

Marshall a very underrated American. A Great Man , a Great Leader .

I have Christopher Walken's speech from Pulp Fiction memorized. That's gotta count for something.

Zip is a douche 😉

Too many ass kissers brown nosers and CYA types nowadays.

Nobody would care these days and if they did, it would only be to post on social media

@@curryboi93 only if they're dumb. You ALWAYS go up the chain.

@@Lorrdd you do, and there's always been people in some of the chains that make the entire thing ineffective. It's the kind of chain where it truly is only as strong as the weakest link.

I want to visit the towns that the 101st Airborn liberated in WWII so I'll eventually get to see Eindhoven then on to Bastone, Belgium. 😊

Yeah if the Nazis won the Netherlands wouldn't have all that weed and prostitution. Thank God for America.

Same here.. thank you

Sadly there are many in my country who forget. And they mock those who made the ultimate sacrifice

@@troutwalker475yea but will they mock us to our face? Thats the ? There are a lot of cowards out there that dont respect

Many don’t even make it back, some even go into the street to be forgotten by their own country !

And yet, there's no father in this scene, just the mother, because of Hollywood sexism.

@@Lorrddtouch grass

​@@Lorrddseriously get offline for a bit, jfc

Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir

One of the best lines in cinema 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

*Yes, sir*

........ “and that’s the end of this discussion!”

Amen. Get his ass back home. Momma deserves it.

THE BUNKERS JESSE!

"If this don't work we will cook meth!!!"

You mean Todd

Yo but mistah white, they’ve got like machine guns, B**ch

Tell the Nazis, I AM THE DANGER.

+johnny ray That was a great post Johnny ray.

+Camera Noob Peace to you, my soldiers and I will forever know the price of freedom... Freedom is good, the cost is very precious...

johnny ray amen brother

we are only the greatest country on Earth, thanks to warriors like you. thank you, and God thanks you, for the service you do

+Debbie collins I extend the love of Christ to you Debbie... but I am not a warrior... I am only simple person, blessed by God to be here. God bless you, but most of all God bless all soldiers who fight for right and not for power. Peace to you this Christmas and Holiday season!

This very same thing happened to my great aunt in December 1944 in Jourdanton Texas. Her son, my namesake, was killed in action and the family was notified this way.

That flag in the front window, with four stars, indicating that there were four men (sons, brothers?) serving in the US armed forces. It really hits home that some families did really make an ultimate sacrifice. The film is apparently based on the Niland brothers, three in the army and one in the AirForce.

@@michaelhayden725 And now 3 of them will be gold.

@@michaelhayden725 could have been any family really. My Grandmother had 4 brothers in ww2. 3 pilots and an infantry man in a tank destroyer battalion. I have the newspaper clipping announcing infantryman Hebert Perkins death. The other brother's had joined the Army Air Corp cause they were farmers and knew better than walking in the mud all day. (quote from an uncle) One of the brothers stayed in after the war and made Colonel. HIS son also made Colonel in the 80s. One brother became an attorney, one married a rich girl whose family owned a bunch of lumber yards. Grandmom's sister also married a pilot. He coached high school baseball in Houston Texas and all he ever owned were Chrysler's. I only EVER heard one war story, it was from the Colonel. It was very short comment, while we watched a war movie after Thanksgiving. The movie scene was in the Pacific where the planes dropped their bombs early, thinking they could turn back and the commanders made them do strafing runs to take the focus off planes doing bombing runs. His comment was, that only happened with rookie pilots. You'd get written up if you did it twice, no one wanted their mother to know.

All 3 notices on the same day, would be way better than all 3 the same week.

I think I had read that we lost 900 men a day in Europe on average from D-Day to V-E Day.

And we lost more men on 11 November 1918 in the six hours between the signing of the Armistice and its coming into effect at 11:00 am than we lost on 6 June 1944. Germany had given up in 1918, and yet we still kept killing.

Not a single one of them were “suckers” or “losers”, and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t deserve to live in this wonderful country, let alone be a president of this country.

Remind GenZ, they seem to have forgotten.

My mum always said' Governments make the wars, the poor people have to fight them'. They liveth for evermore.... May the Lord bless our dear American friends. With deepest respect to all who fought against Nazi tyranny, 🙏 from Australia, and Britain 🇬🇧

​@@rafezetter8003KARMA will get them horrible Generation they will pay one day all of them

As a Brit, we will never forget what your servicemen did to help us beat Nazi Germany.

Respect to ANY veteran of military service. They never know when the call may come for them to give their life for the country.

86sith poor brown people? You’re pathetic.

TO all veterans. Not just the Americans who think they're better than everyone else.

@86sith For banks are you stupid your like the most ignorant person I've heard in this video fucking bitch what are you talking about and killing brown people are you crazy.

FOR THE REPUBLIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

As an addendum to my first post, my heart hurts for all those women in the War Office during WW2, who had to type the condolence letters to all those mothers,fathers, sisters and brothers...must have been a gut wrenching job...

So did I..after serving in Iraq and Afcrapistan..I can feel the pain of the families that have lost a loved one in this worthless wars...future generations will laugh at us for doin so.

Guy ... "Salute" ... Thank You And as We All Remember Today Sun. Dec 7th ... BC, USN 'Nam .

It was worse - oh god, it was so much worse - in real life. She wouldn't have gotten them all at the same time. She would have gotten them... *one after the other*.

Me too Kiwi, I think all mothers of recently deceased soldiers should be flown to Washington DC on a plane and have breakfast with the President. A hundred or so at the time, load up the plane, and let the President say something nice to the ladies. Won't bring the sons back, but it will remind the President of the impact of his decisions.

Superb acting. Unforgettable.

I've always thought the same. A perfect casting and an absolutely flawless performance.

Musician and veteran of theater and film Harve Presnell. His three minutes in this film pale in comparison to his career, but also might have been his best-known work.

@@clarkmorrison7243 he was in Fargo the movie and had a much bigger role there also as the father in law

"Stop playing with yourself, Hooper!" lol

hearts76100 and his cinematographer

Spielberg damn sure knows how to direct a movie! Excellent!

Who else thought of leadership when he gave the order to get the surviving son out of the war ?

that's directing not cinematography!

@@larrysullivan8890 ~ When he flat out told them, "The boys alive..." There was no question.

Zip zen ac - you're spreading your antisemitic lies all over the place. Not a SINGLE American soldier has EVER fought in a war on behalf of Israel. The Israelis can fight their own wars very well on their own. On the contrary, GHW Bush sent HALF A MILLION AMERICAN TROOPS to liberate Kuwait and protect Saudi Arabia - and they still hate America. The lies you spread about Jews are your pathetic attempt to spread your antisemitic illness to others. Get help.

@Zip Zenac So did the pita bread not agree with your stomach or something? As a matter of fact, it is the USA that relies on Israeli HumInt, lots of it. This is one of the (many) reasons that the two countries cooperate so closely. Your assessment of the Israeli army's inability to stand up to a Western army indicate the level of incompetence allowed to a "liaison officer" like you. You are a disgrace to the Armed Forces. An Israeli commando I know who has studied the US Marines training found that the Israelis are in much better shape for real duty. The IAF demonstrated during the Gulf War of Bush Sr. that they could quickly do the job that the USAF was afraid to do, flying low to identify targets correctly instead of blowing up Saddam's dummy decoys. The Israelis, back then, actually found and fixed software bugs in the Patriot guidance systems, that the Americans couldn't deal with. Zenac, you make us laugh. And you can rest assured that the Israelis are very aware of the US CIA spies working in Israel. Especially those spying on Israel. You aren't revealing anything new here. Your assessment that Egypt is "the main threat" to Israel is laughable. The two countries cooperate very closely in dealing with ISIS in Sinai, Hamas in Gaza (both countries are blockading Gaza) and with other Jihadi enemies. I have spoken to MFO personnel. They are absolutely terrified of their Egyptian Bedouin neighbors and don't leave their compound except in convoy or by air. When they get to go visit Israel, they just LOVE it here - they can walk freely without fear, enjoy the sun, chat to people, have a beer - nothing like Egypt. "Huge cost to the US taxpayer"? Are you nuts? Firstly, the MFO is a small force and small change in Defense Dollars terms. Secondly, the US spends vastly more - in American Blood and Money - in other areas - e.g. protecting the Arab states from each other. Israel does it's own protecting itself. NO AMERICAN SOLDIER HAS EVER FOUGHT A WAR ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL. EVER. Zip Zenac, you have already established your credentials as a lunatic and Jew-hater. Your lying about Israel isn't convincing anyone, except the - what did you call them? - "gullible fools" who don't know anything. Try your lies somewhere else.

To think she thought it was going to be one of her sons, and it turns out to be 3 out of 4. Can’t imagine the overwhelming emotions.

Seeing her fall to the floor brakes my heart! Many other mothers going through the same today. May God give them the strength to carry one.

The moment when she face the door, take a deep breath, and start walking to the front door, thinking about which one of her boys was killed. Heartbreaking.

People like you who say "chills" need to be sent to frontlines.

@@temperedglass1130 Not sure why you'd have a problem with that word, but it's your problem, so...

@@temperedglass1130 people like you are the people who need to be taught a good lesson.

@@temperedglass1130 I feel sorry for your misplaced confusion.

@@temperedglass1130 Chill bro

My family line includes a WW 2 Gold Star mother.

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The Gen Z lot all have forgotten, and what sacrifice is, believe me. Sadly the world is getting worse every day and some day there won’t be a generation left to give a damn anymore.

I do wonder if your dear grandfather, god bless him, would have chuckled at the irony of going on a reconnaissance mission and his jeep then hitting a land mine. The old timers were like that, saw the humor in everything, even their own mortality.

My reply to you Mr Paton is 2 years late, but we all should be proud of your Grandfather and we salute your family's humility and graciousness.

Your Family paid a Precious price to help sustain our FREEDOM. Thank You & may God bless the memory of your Sacrifice.

Wow I didn't know that. I live nearby. I'll pay a visit and thank him

My grandfather taught at the Beal School. Still there along with Paton Square and Paton Street just a few feet down the street from the school. And my mom's step brother , James Andersen,. My brothers namesake, Was shot down on the way back to England from a bombing run into the sea. Never found.

But it's still a movie. Of course, there wouldn't have been this movie if this scene didn't exist. But, even in the movie, the screenwriter chose to offset one life removed from harms way at a cost of many others. A purpose of art ... to make us ponder

I am a Gulf War veteran. Generation X. Thank you so much for everything YOUR generation did for mine. We came home to parades,education benefits,housing benefits,and VA healthcare and pensions. That is entirely because of you. You wanted us to have all the things you deserved,but were shamefully denied. You,are our fathers. We,are your sons. And our gratitude is only exceeded by our love,and our respect. Thank you for your service.

Ray Herbst also influenced by the Sullivan brothers. They refused to be put on separate ships, during the battle of Guadalcanal their ship sunk. All 5 died, it's one of the main reasons brothers are not allowed to serve in the same ship anymore.

Today the youngest brother can't get draft because of this.

I went to college with a guy whose great-grandfather was the youngest of five sons, the other four all died on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme The Sole Survivor Policy is a very, very good idea

Ray - Interesting stuff. Thanks for the history lesson.

Thank you for this information Ray

As a german, i watch it with tears of rage, esprcially considering the accuracy with ehich the amerikans shot german prisoners out of hand.

@Stinkmeaner younfucking idiot. Yes, soldiers fight. Do you think american soldiers did not do the same elsewhere??? When the soldier puts down his arms, he is be treated humanely. The law does not say only if you re not angry. You have no sense of soldierly honor. You.re a beast. I was a soldier. You are a murderer.

Stinkmeaner damn right. After what they did to my fellow countrymen and brothers, I’d shoot them in the stomach and leave em

@Stinkmeaner wrong. I served in Northern Afghanistan.

Done. K now i can cry.

The banner with four stars in window pretty much said it all quite succinctly. Especially when one realizes that three will soon be gold.

+victor256in He was one of Pershing's favorites, along with George Pattton, his aide-de-Camp. One of his main contributions was washing out the old walrus Major Generals who commanded the peace-time Nation Guard Divisionson the basis of political pull.

Very true indeed!

Marshall was also one of the greatest peace time leaders. Marshall authored the "Marshall Plan" which guided the rebuilding of Europe after the war.

Young people today can learn so much by studying the past

@zip zenac - At this very moment, here in Israel, I'm listening to radio reports on the latest war that Islamic Hamas is waging on Israel. After negotiating a ceasefire with Israel, the Palestinian Jihadis in Gaza fired over 200 rockets into Israeli towns today in just two hours, hitting houses and sending the south of Israel into bomb shelters. A 19 year old Israeli was severely injured when a Palestinian anti-tank rocket was aimed at, and hit, a bus. The same irrational, crazed hatred of Jews that zip zen ac suffers from is the same illness that drives the death-glorifying jihadis of Gaza. And both of them base their sick ideologies on many, many lies about Jews. Zip Zenacs non-factual rantings here demonstrate this amply.

Absolutely!

It looks like he keeps it at a certain page in his personal Bible, perhaps one specifically about wartime.

And look at our society and government now -_-

Clader213 Better than the middle east...

Red Charge Which incidentally is also something that the people of your country paid for, by their tax dollars and lives.

*****" they sunk our ships at an alarming rate in 1942"...Yet we managed to overwhelm them by sending more and more merchant ships and perfecting our anti-submarine tactics. Now imagine if we weren't burdened by having to send so much aid across the atlantic to begin with. " they were the bigger threat, Germany could have survived without Japan, but Japan"...Threat to whom? Not to the U.S. as you've already admitted. Let the european dictators slug it out. Europe would possibly have had one less dictator (stalin) with a Nazi-dominated mainland Europe instead of the soviet steamroller taking over all of eastern Europe. And our commerce and affairs would have shifted over to asia a lot sooner than it eventually did.

+Darth Belal Our politicians should realize the sacrifices of our armed forces and should not throw it all away by selling our country out by being politically correct.

Brilliant take. Thank you.

Three years late, but that's a phenomenal memory, too. That clerk seemed to be reviewing one of the letters, but also had enough memory to go "wait..." and check the rest of her stack, and then walk over to a stack of other letters to pull a third letter to confirm that, no, it's not just a coincidence, it's not just similar last names, but 3 losses from a single family.

No. Doubt. Took my breath away first time I saw the movie

Wish Master, you're a real jerk aren't you?

Gurn Blanstein yeah a ungrateful jerk thats what video games do to a generation. Snowflake beta male immature weasels.

philip c thank you for sharing that with us sir. We are so very blessed here in the USA. Some people just don’t care to understand the sacrifice made by many to make it what it is today. Peace brother🇺🇸

philip c thank you

Mr C Thank you As a veteran and fellow American .

Well said! We are honored to call you a fellow American!

Welcome to OUR country

Welcome to America. If you dig a little deeper you will find many Americans who deeply understand and appreciate this history. Many of those people fly the flag.

Freedom isn't free.

She had the look of devastation only a mother can

You know she is /was. So were many of the clerk typists in the scene-wives-girlfriends daughters

She reminds me of my grandmother.

Thank you for your service, my fellow American!

Thank you for your service.

Thank you from a grateful nation.

thanks for your service from Canada!

Thank you for your service

They were called Gold Star families because they would get a gold star and hang it in the front window to let people know of the sacrifice their family made to our country. It was a different time, a time of brave heroes.

imagine to hear three of your sons are killed so heart wrenching i shed a tear everytime for her pain and sorrow.

Amazing story. Not to make light, but that sounds like a better story than Saving Private Ryan. Truth is truly stranger (and better) than fiction. I mean, what were the odds? I can see that you have excellent writing skills. Please get as much information as you can about your Fathers wartime odyssey. This story has to be told.You must be very proud of your Father. Men and Women who fought for our freedoms during WWII truly were "The Greatest Generation". I envy you.

Thankyou for sharing such an incredible story. So inspiring.

I wouldn't have been able to hold my composure at JAGing. Id say to hell with them pigs and string up high and make them suffer. I can't believe it weighed on him heavily to sentence them.

holy shit.... that's a crazy story. Dark and sad. He sounds like he was a tough, brave, and decent man. Thank you for sharing.

My mom said that my grandfather Vecencio Santos helped a Japanese soldier suffering from diarrhea here in Davao City during the war. Years later my grandfather died, their neighbors said there was a Japanese who was looking for him but since the family had transferred to a different location, they never met the Japanese again.

Mr White, we don’t even know where to find him yo.

Ryan would be ashamed that his great grandson Todd would join a gang of Neo-Nazis.

Write a book. There are fewer and fewer of you each year.

Thank you for your service 🇺🇲

America got dupped into a war by Roosevelt. Had he not cut japans oil thrrr was no need for war .... Unprovoked my ass.

Always remember that you're lucky to be alive. Spend as much time with your family as you can.

Semper fi

And of the germans who defended against them, under the greatest artillery barrage in history. And still we defended against the amerikan invasion

According to EA they were blue haired lesbians with robotic arms that stormed those beaches.

@Stinkmeaner again, you are a fool. Do you think that the American regime is any less violent and bloody? Do you not think that the Americans have killed Indians, gays, and blacks?

@@mikeggg5671 grow up kraut.

And of the German soldiers who defend their conquered nation from the onslaught, under a barrage of the likes unseen since the war fought by their fathers. n

The country is a dump now.

I know! It’s wild seeing some well known actors who were in this film before they got their big breaks!

She was "every" mom who had to face that situation. Brilliantly acted and filmed.

The look of her face at 3: 57. Probably didn't get many folks driving out the their somewhat remote farm. She knew. Mothers always know.

ccjjpp1966 I just noticed that this very week. I rewatched during the Memorial Day holiday.

Nah, it's Hal.

Yeah, he lost an arm cooking the blue meth.

+pvtpyle40able This isn't the video to make your dumb ass comments on

+ccjjpp1966 And General Marshall is Wade Gustafson.

She was told 3 but one of them survived, it was the one that was in the pacific

@@SpeedyWings2323 No, that was one of the Niland brothers, whose true story was the basis for SPR. The Niland brother in the Pacific was thought to have been killed, but was in fact a POW of the Japanese and was repatriated at the end of the war. The Ryan brothers are fictional, in the book and movie, so three of them fictionally die. As for the thought to be only surviving Niland brother, I'm not sure, but I believe they just ordered him removed from his unit and sent State-side. I don't think they sent a squad of Rangers behind enemy limes to extract him.

They don't make movies like this anymore

Seeing Mrs. Ryan collapse on her porch is all I needed to convince me that her son needs to come home.

KT Simpson Agreed, super-powerful scene The typing with the voice-overs for snippets of the letters, the clerk discovering the letters, mrs ryan collapsing on the porch... "The old colonel" is Dale Dye, USMC capt, Nam vet. He runs training camps for actors so they can realistically portray grunts. He was also in PLATOON. The camp for RYAN was like a week, they lived in the field, weapons training, patrol, etc. Damon was not there to add to the harsh attitude they had toward him in the movie.

I didn't even recognize him! He was in a few Platoon scenes as the Company Commander and also as the door gunner on a UH1. Dale must have enlisted or commissioned in the 50s. So I would imagine that he served with a TON of WW2 vets and would be the best person to get the details of the uniforms right. Dale's the man.

KT Simpson He also played Col. Sink in Band of Brothers.

another awesome thing was when Marshall was READING Lincoln's letter to mrs Bixby(letter is real), as gets to the end u notice he's not reading it, he's RECITING it, he memorized the letter..."and we are going to get him the hell out of there." Spielberg is a master.

Totally agree. Great movie. They made some parts so powerful, without the special effects or anything fancy.

Beautifully described, could not agree more.

This scene is brilliantly filmed. Showing the beautiful farm, well-tended and isolated by a vast sea of crops. The mother’s entire adult life spent there working hard, raising and nurturing her children. She has created a fine warm home for her family. The four-starred flag hung on the farmhouse porch, a star for each son in the service. This is the heartland of America where so many mother’s saw their son’s off to war, where many - too many - would never return to that peaceful place.

I believe her name is Amanda Boxer from England.

Seeing her open the front door to walk outside & greet that car, despite her greatest fears of the news it brings, illustrates how bravery isn't only shown on the battlefield, but by those back home who sent their loved ones. I think we all understand Private Ryan's reluctance to be rescued after seeing his mother's gumption to face that approaching car.

The way she sinks as her legs give way……poignant to the T. Fucking amazing.

Long time ago.

Y’know black people had separate water fountains back then, right? You don’t even understand the context of what you speak, and it’s embarrassing.

Back when Americans were honourable…never mind the government…

@@thecarpetman7687was that during Jim Crow and segregation?😮

Well said!

I cried a lot when i rewatched this cause i realized the picture of all brothers together on the shelf

You know this is fiction, right?

@@jeffclark5268 got to love American propaganda. They really swallow it whole.

Mr White, I didn’t know you served in the Second World War, yo!

Wait u said queue, that in 2008 where it released in pune, for a movie released in 1998

One of many others

Not only seeing the mother's reaction, but to the side is a photograph of the four brothers together before going to war.

I never noticed that before. Just makes this scene even more sad.

Did something like this happen in WW2 or was it only based on the Civil War Brothers?

Yup she already knew what time it was when she seen them pulling up.

The sound of all those "word processors".

Sometimes you have to defend the flock from the wolves.

Kiitos Vapaudemme.

there is, on the small war memrial in my Suffolk UK town the names of four brothers, all killed in the First World War. I never pass it without thinking of their prents. That was all their chidren.. gone in one war. I imagine the silent evenings sitting sadly in front of the fire just lost in tought about their lost boys.

Well your country Norway has really fallen from grace in 2024 hasn't it