I do a lot of reminiscing about my favorite scenes and lines , from movies and songs. Today I've thinking about Saving Private Ryan
The film opens with an elderly Private Ryan, his wife and a few of his off springs, walking across an American Military Cemetary, in France, looking at tombstones. He finds what he was looking for. The marker for Captain Miller. The leader of the patrol that was sent to save him.
As he quietly looked at the marker, the film goes to WW 2. Captain Miller is laying, mortally wounded. in the ruble of a French village. Private Ryan is kneeling beside Captain Miller
" How can I possibly repay you and your men, for what you are doing for me?"
With his last breath, Captain Miller says "Just be a good man."
The film shifts back to the Cemetary. The elderly Private Ryan, without breaking his gaze at the tombstone, says to his wife.
" Honey, have I been a good man?".
I can't think of a better epitaph than--
He was a good man"
Okie D
