Saving Private Ryan -
"A hero has a purpose which to live"
A man is walking among the tombs, bowed and quiet. An autumn breeze flows in the cold cementery. He is nearer of the end than the beginning of the life. He lives his last years, the old age, the experienced ones. He seems tired, but is making an effort to walk. Behind him, those who seem his relatives are watching him with the deepest respect.
The gentlemen bows on a tomb. The stone has the name of a U.S Army's lieutenant marked on it. Not any lieutenant! For the old man, that tomb belongs to the one who crossed the entire map in World War II for bringing his freedom back.
Many years ago, the U.S Goverment had revised the files, and found out that one mother had lost her four sons in the battlefront, and they realized that it wasn't fair for the mother losing her fifth boy under the army's flag. The wanted to indemnify to the old woman somehow, and the best way was searching her last son in the middle of the battle for
sending him back to her, there in the United States. For he can live the last years with a mother who lost almost everything.
During the rescue, the lieutenant himself can't believe that a whole platoon is sacrifying themselves to rescue just one soldier.
However, such action cost his own life and his best men's; and before dying, the lieutenant looks at the soldier's eyes and dedicates his last words: "Earn this...Earn this". In a few words he said: "I hope you be worthy of this sacrifice, live a good life".
Now, that soldier is the old man who watchs the tomb. The war is over many years ago, but he wants to know if he could pay that debt with his lieutenant.
He contemplates the grave and turns back to his wife, as old as himself, saying: "I need you to tell me if I have been a good man", "I need to know if I lived a good life, if I am worthy of this huge sacrifice", insists the old man, droping tears while he embraces the woman of his life.
The scene is the most achieved scene of the film "Saving Private Ryan", starring by the laureate actor Tom Hanks.
I've always been fascinated for trying to define the heart of a visionary. And possibly this Steven Spielberg's film scene be the one who describes it the best. Because every dreamer feels that has an ethernal debt with the cross. He/She is aware of what has received by grace, but feels the pressure of make his/her life worths every minute of the life anyway, every single day of his/her existence.
Private Ryan couldn't allow himself to expend his life playing basketball or fishing next to the river. "A whole platoon died to give him the opcion of living". And he should to do something important of that, something that worths such effort. He never invented anything, neither won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize. However, it was enough for him knowing at least if he had been a good father and the best husband.
Johan Blanco,
Worship/Youth Leader at "The Glory of God" Christian Community Church.
Punto Fijo, Venezuela
"A hero has a purpose which to live"
A man is walking among the tombs, bowed and quiet. An autumn breeze flows in the cold cementery. He is nearer of the end than the beginning of the life. He lives his last years, the old age, the experienced ones. He seems tired, but is making an effort to walk. Behind him, those who seem his relatives are watching him with the deepest respect.The gentlemen bows on a tomb. The stone has the name of a U.S Army's lieutenant marked on it. Not any lieutenant! For the old man, that tomb belongs to the one who crossed the entire map in World War II for bringing his freedom back.
Many years ago, the U.S Goverment had revised the files, and found out that one mother had lost her four sons in the battlefront, and they realized that it wasn't fair for the mother losing her fifth boy under the army's flag. The wanted to indemnify to the old woman somehow, and the best way was searching her last son in the middle of the battle for
sending him back to her, there in the United States. For he can live the last years with a mother who lost almost everything.
During the rescue, the lieutenant himself can't believe that a whole platoon is sacrifying themselves to rescue just one soldier.
However, such action cost his own life and his best men's; and before dying, the lieutenant looks at the soldier's eyes and dedicates his last words: "Earn this...Earn this". In a few words he said: "I hope you be worthy of this sacrifice, live a good life".
Now, that soldier is the old man who watchs the tomb. The war is over many years ago, but he wants to know if he could pay that debt with his lieutenant.
He contemplates the grave and turns back to his wife, as old as himself, saying: "I need you to tell me if I have been a good man", "I need to know if I lived a good life, if I am worthy of this huge sacrifice", insists the old man, droping tears while he embraces the woman of his life.
The scene is the most achieved scene of the film "Saving Private Ryan", starring by the laureate actor Tom Hanks.
I've always been fascinated for trying to define the heart of a visionary. And possibly this Steven Spielberg's film scene be the one who describes it the best. Because every dreamer feels that has an ethernal debt with the cross. He/She is aware of what has received by grace, but feels the pressure of make his/her life worths every minute of the life anyway, every single day of his/her existence.
Private Ryan couldn't allow himself to expend his life playing basketball or fishing next to the river. "A whole platoon died to give him the opcion of living". And he should to do something important of that, something that worths such effort. He never invented anything, neither won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize. However, it was enough for him knowing at least if he had been a good father and the best husband.
Johan Blanco,
Worship/Youth Leader at "The Glory of God" Christian Community Church.
Punto Fijo, Venezuela
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