:22:01
Imagine getting three
in the same day.
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Freedom doesn't come for free.
:22:10
Those gold stars in the windows
:22:12
meant their boy
wasn't gonna come home.
:22:15
They put it in the window
and you knew at that house
:22:20
the husband or son...
:22:23
had paid the last
full measure of devotion
:22:26
and they were never
gonna see him again.
:22:31
And that's why we're free.
:22:33
Because he gave his life.
:22:36
This movie is about the veterans.
:22:39
It's for the veterans
of World War Two.
:22:42
We talked about that often
when we made the picture.
:22:46
It's important
to keep telling the stories
:22:49
to understand what
the basis for this was.
:22:52
The more you talk
about the horrors of war,
:22:55
the less likely you are to try
to get involved in another one.
:23:00
It's important we remember
the men of World War Two.
:23:03
It's thanks to them we live
in this free world today.
:23:08
They deserve applause.
:23:10
In all honesty they deserve
medals and honours and parades,
:23:14
but they also deserve our thanks
:23:16
for their sacrifices
when they were virile young men.
:23:19
It's important to remember
:23:21
that there were people willing
to die for their country.
:23:25
They were willing
to give their lives.
:23:27
We owe a lot to people
that are easy to forget,
:23:31
trying to satisfy our own
contemporary lives.
:23:33
If it weren't for the veterans,
we wouldn't have those lives.
:23:38
Everybody who complains
about going to work
:23:43
at eight o'clock
in the morning somewhere
:23:46
should come here and look down
this stretch of beach
:23:52
and consider what was asked
of that generation to do
:23:56
on June 6th, 1944.