If it doesn't have to be new... Saving Private Ryan
When the movie comes to the cemetery scene at the very end, all I could think about were the men I had served with and the ones we lost. As the credits finished, I was alone with my wife in a dark empty theater, still in tears.
Could you ever live up to that debt? Fifty years later, viewing their graves, he turns to his wife pleading, “Tell me I'm a good man!” In other words, “Tell me I didn't waste those men's lives! Tell me I lived up to them! Tell me I didn't waste away my life bought with their blood!”
Even writing these words, I still well up. I think they're thoughts that ever one of us who have been in combat and lived through it feel just below the surface every day, not a conscious thought, but ever present all the same.
