While fighting in a war many unexpected things can happen. In "Saving Private Ryan" Tom Hanks and his squad were givin an unexpected task to retrieve a certain private in the mass amounts of people fighting in the war. The men thought it was a assignment they should not have to do, because they were risking the lives of themselves to rescue one other man. Being forced to go out into this mission their squad …showed first 75 words of 567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 567 total…mother with some amount of happiness, they lost 6 men from their squad. While one mothers son was saved, 6 other mothers were devistated with news of their sons death's. However if the men did not die on this mission they probably would have died somewhere else. In the end the war was won, Ryan was saved, and all the men in the squad did their jobs in not only saving private Ryan, but winning the war.