:32:00
He was dropped
about 15 miles inland
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near Neuville.
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But that's still deep
behind German lines.
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Now, Mac, there is
no way you can know
:32:07
where in the hell
he was dropped.
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First reports out of
lke's people at Shaef
:32:11
said the 101st is scattered
all to hell and gone.
:32:14
There's misdrops
all over Normandy.
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Assuming Private Ryan
even survived the jump,
:32:19
he could be anywhere.
:32:20
In fact,
he's probably K.I.A.
:32:22
And frankly, sir,
:32:23
we go sending some sort
of rescue mission,
:32:26
flat-hatting through swarms
of German reinforcements
:32:28
all along our axis
of advance,
:32:30
they're gonna be K.I.A. too.
:32:54
I have a letter here...
:32:57
written a long time ago
to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston.
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So bear with me.
:33:06
"Dear Madam,
:33:07
I have been shown in the files
of the war department
:33:10
a statement of the adjutant
general of Massachusetts
:33:14
that you...
:33:15
are the mother of 5...
:33:19
sons who have died gloriously
on the field of battle.
:33:26
I feel how weak and fruitless
must be any words of mine...
:33:30
that would attempt
to beguile you from the grief...
:33:34
of a loss so overwhelming.
:33:38
But I cannot refrain
from tendering to you
:33:40
the consolation
that may be found...
:33:43
in the thanks
of the republic...
:33:46
they died to save.
:33:51
I pray that
our Heavenly Father
:33:53
may assuage the anguish
of your bereavement
:33:56
and leave you only
the cherished memory
:33:58
of the loved and lost...