General George C.Marshall United States Army Chief of Staff General Marshall(GM)-Oh damn it. Man on far left(MOFL)-All four of them were in the same company in the 29th division but we split them up after the Sullivan brothers died on the Juneau. GM-Aha, any uh contact with the fourth son, James? MOFL-No sir, he was dropped about 15 miles inland near Neuville. That's still deep enough on the- Man on far right-Now mac, there is no way you can know where in the hell he was dropped. General, first reports from Ikes guys out of SHAEF said the Hundred and first got scattered to hell and gone. There's misdrops all over Normandy. Now assuming Private Ryan even survived the jump, he could be any where. In fact, he's probably KIA. And frankly sir, we go sending some kind of rescue mission flat-hatting through swarms of German reinforcements all along our axis of advance, they're gonna be KIA too. GM-I have a letter here written a long time ago to a Miss Bixby in Boston. Bare with me. Dear Madam. I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine that would attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln. The boys alive, we are gonna send somebody to find him and we are gonna get him the hell outta there.
