I have avoided this movie for a long time and now I know why. I saw it yesterday (taped from HBO) and spent a sleepless night. It was pretty graphic and terrible. I think it is definitely an anti-war movie.
Toward the end Tom Hanks looked at Private Ryan and said something like "You deserve it." Meaning he deserved the sacrifices the eight men made to save him. At the end of Ryan's life, he is still worried about whether he deserved it or not. What a terrible legacy to saddle a man with all his life. Is there any way he could possibly deserve that sacrifice? Is there any possible way we can deserve the sacrifices our servicemen make for us? For that matter, do we ever deserve the love we receive? Our parents' love? Our siblings'? Our spouse's? Our children's? Can we ever deserve God's love? Of course not. Of course not to all of it. We just have it. The best we can do is be grateful and try to be good to one another. Give it up, Ryan. You were given the sacrifice. You could never deserve it.
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