While fighting in a war many unexpected things can happen. In "Saving Private Ryan" Tom Hanks and his squad were givin an unexpected task to retrieve a certain private in the mass amounts of people fighting in the war. The men thought it was a assignment they should not have to do, because they were risking the lives of themselves to rescue one other man. Being forced to go out into this mission their squad ended up taking on 2 casualties. Saving Private Ryan was worth it, but along the way the group recieves 2 casualties and express their feelings about the mission.
The reason the army retrieved Private Ryan was because his brothers had already died in combat, and he had to carry on the family name. Carrying on the family name is extremely important to most families, and unfortunatly many family names were halted due to deaths from warring.
During the travels to save Ryan 2 men in the squad die. In the scene in the field a man in the squad says "lets go around the germans"(whom were in the field securly defending an area with machine guns). Tom Hanks says they will attack the Germans, because no matter what their sub-objective is their main objective is to win the war, and to accomplish that they kill the Germans. After this mini-battle the squad loses their medic to gun shot wounds, and a member of the squad says he is quitting the mission and going home no matter what the orders. Tom Hanks then explains that he doesnt care at all about Ryan, and all he cares about is completing the mission to earn his right to go home.
Saving Private Ryan was worth it, but along the way the group recieves 2 casualties and express their feelings about the mission. While the squad saved private
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