There’s a moment in Saving Private Ryan, the 1998 Steven Spielberg gore-fest, when the sergeant, played by Tom Sizemore, tells his captain: “Someday, we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful s***ty mess.”
The one decent thing? What about, you know, defeating Hitler? What about liberating millions from brutal foreign occupation? What about stopping the Holocaust?
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