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  • "Earn this."
  • General Marshall reads a letter he keeps written by an A.Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby who lost 5 sons during the Civil War. Noting the tragedy that no mother should lose all of her sons, Marshall looks at his officers and says "We are going to find Private Ryan, and we are going to get him the hell out of there."
  • At the end, when Ryan looks at his wife and asks her if he had deserved this, if he had lived a good life...