My Father Private Harry Stewart Cameron was a farmer. He was 17 and joined like hundreds of thousands of farm boys the Army. He trained as a commando and landed at D-Day. Dad survived the war but he had they said he suffered Shell Shock (now called PTSD) and was removed 2 times from first stretcher bearer work and then put back on the front lines with a rifle. While surviving his HELL, back home the country took all the land of his farm he was willed by his grandparents as they died. He returned and was handed a letter saying they took his land for taxes and he was homeless. He tried going into underground mines like his father but could not physically withstand it. He left on a train a year later for obstensibly open pit mining work but jumped off in a train layover with another man and went onto ironwork and then worked 25+ years making guess what? - farm implements combines and tractors. He was a farmer in his head and mind. Every year he would go to that abandoned farmhouse for 2-3 weeks out of the 4 he got off for vacation from his job. I was 12 when I figured out after seeing him crying and suffering it was his land as he was on a high ridge crying by himself. Every year he would cry as he had to make a 1,200 mile journey to get back to his factory 3 shift job. He supported 5 kids and his wife. That WWII Veteran i grew up in his shadow. Dad died at the end of the 80s. I am trying to get the land back it worth millions now. The violated his rights as a soldier fighting for his country and took his land against the law they passed that ruled that out for Veterans.

the actor who played General Marshall was in Dawson's Creek. he was Dawson's cranky film mentor !

General Marshall was one of our greatest generals.

People always remember:)

I have 3 brothers since 79 and I know during that time we would have did the same me I don’t know but I know I would have went after my brother s

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Every time, I watch this , I cry as a combat veteran who has been in numerous explosions, but if I died over there, I would die with a smile on my face. that I die from my country. Nothing is better than the United States.

Ya know, there wasn't really a bad actor or actress in this movie. Every single character just radiated authenticity.

Unfortunately the greatest generation gave birth to the worst generation full of entilments like social security and medicade and Medicare. Now we have the most abusive govt. I truly feel iraq and afghan vets have yet to have their calling. I feel their nations calling will be here on the home front to give the country back to the people.

Lincoln was the best

My oldest has 9 combat tours and 2 bronze stars. I was. Navy pilot during Nam. Father , 2 uncles WW2.0thers all the w@y back..thank God for those and others that will defend this country

I live in the country seen at 4:05. Lots of wheat, potatoes, alfalfa. All over that country there are old fallen down houses like the one pictured, with old fallen down barns nearby. Where Americans raised families and worked all those years ago.

My two great uncles & grandfather fought in WW1 for the Canadians. My grandfather was gassed & wounded whilst his two brothers were killed. Sadly this is something that will continue to be repeated in future.

Just watching this once again and, once again, tears fill my eyes. Except now my tears are not just for all those heroes who laid down their lives so that we could be free, but for the world today where compassion and love have been thrown out the window in what has become an orgy of justification for the evil acts and deeds of those who believe that our way of life is wrong and that we should all follow the beliefs and their religion.

Its not just those in uniform who serve. That mother will bare the scars of her sacrifice for all her remaining years.

I talked to a guy who was in the Army during Vietnam who's job was to sort and file casualty reports. Never went overseas or into combat, just sat in a regular office all day sorting papers, and decades after he still broke down talking about it. He said you just can't fathom the scope of it. Not just the dead but the people who lost limbs and ability. And he had to see their names and ages. I can't imagine what those typists felt at the end of their shift

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As soon as she saw the car.....she knew. Easily the most terrifying scene in the film. Done perfectly.

In studying military history both when I served and afterwards, I've always thought that Gen Marshall never got the recognition for leadership that he deserved. Everyone knows about Ike, Patton, Bradley, and Montgomery. But Gen Marshall was the true ultimate Military Command Authority, and acted in many ways as a pseudo Secretary of State and War. This example of his leadership, to determine that he was not going to let a mother suffer the deaths of four sons nor have the family's future wiped out - in direct opposition to what military doctrine recommended, cannot be overstated. Leadership isn't always about making the correct decisions, many times it is about making the right decisions.

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Next stop bed bug City.. always cracks me up ... :-)

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4:54 Yeah thanks for the Wikipedia plot synopsis

Being a vet this makes me weak , I'm so sorry .

I cry and I've seen this several times.

Yes to the clerk.

Letter to Mrs. Bixby In the autumn of 1864 Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew wrote to President Lincoln asking him to express condolences to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a widow believed to have lost five sons during the Civil War. Lincoln's letter to her was printed by the Boston Evening Transcript. Later it was revealed that only two of Mrs. Bixby's five sons died in battle, Charles and Oliver. Of the remainder, one deserted the army, one was honorably discharged, and another deserted or died a prisoner of war.

I know this is base on a true story but my gut feeling is the U.S. military branch doesn't give a crap about any family, remember old men want wars, young dumb boys fight wars

This scene put tears in my eyes

The way the mother stumbles when she sees the army car gets you deep. You really feel her sorrow. They scarcely make movies like this now...

I'm a cat lover and a fan of Simon Baker. This clip is my happy place.

We knew private ryan would be saved as soon as walter white was in charge of the mission

One of the best seen ever from one of the best movie ever❤❤

It is the most emotional moment when a military man comes down from the car and takes off his cap....

Wait was that Heisenberg?

I ball every time with this scene and the scene where the elderly James Ryan asking his wife to tell him he's a good man. Gets me every time.

I never realized it was bryan cranston

Benjamin Wilson Korean Medal of Honor friend is buried at Punch Bowl in Hawaii look up his citation as to how he received his Moh

The mother collapsing and fading into the General saying Dammit is just total movie perfection

The hardest detail, or job, in the military is the notification detail. The next hardest is the burial detail.

The only problem I had with this scene was the impossibility of the death information being relayed from Normandy on the day of the invasion.

Heartbreaking everytime time I see that poor Mother collapse in grief..

A young Walter White

Yes Sir!

People do not Talk like that anymore. Brilliant scene. Sad. So moving. Such a big part of our History.

You’re not selling me a damn car, Jeerry!

but this is what happened...the allies buried the enemy with a pile of manufactred goods..inluding all the admin that was prepared to make all things occured..the pure amount of information theory.

I hope never happens to my family. I got 4 brothers. Oldest in the irish military.thank god the others don't join the army. I dnt think my mother would like the news.god bless USA.

I detect no suckers and losers. "...the altar of freedom."

Remember when we admired a President's decency...