Watched Saving Privates Ryan for the hmmm......maybe 20th time, this time on Sirasa TV. South korea was getting kicked out on the other channel. was knocking down with sleep (after a tired day of work and classes), but managed to stay till the end. This film is very close to my heart. Striking coincidences and simmilarities in the film and my life (hold it ! NO military involvement here !!) I have mentioned this part earlier in Great Quotes but I cannot refrain from posting it yet another time." I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save."
" I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the Alter of Freedom."
Abraham Lincoln
From The collected works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VIII, Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby (November 21, 1864, pp. 116-117)
6 comments:
I love this movie. Incredible acting. I love the scene where they actually find Ryan
hmm the story line is close to ur life?! Interesting. Not too close to mine, unless you can count fruitlessly searching for Matt Damon..
heh !! Oh NO, Hell NO, not searchin 4 Matt Damon or anyone for that matter. It's about achieving an objective.
U do a 100% foo-bar mission (hav no choice) & at the end achieve the goal. but u pay a huge price and u never gonna go home.
Working hard at something, evrytime u have 2 try harder. & u choose the hard thorny path knowing u gonna gain nothing. But someone else will.
Also u make a great sacrifice and watch the beneficiary being happy thanx 2 ur sacrifices.
The dazed Tom Hanks after a blast. hav gone thru trauma almost unconcsious.
venus, search no more. We occasionally refer to dogfight as the lankan matt damon.
Since when did u start misleading ppl ?? Thou shalt pay dearly 4 this u maniac.
or should I say mutt damon? Hyuk hyuk.
sure !!
or mutt (mo)le(y) blank !!
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