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Read more Captain Miller QuotesFrom: Saving Private Ryan
We are not here to do a decent thing, we are here to follow fuckin' orders!
I don't know. Part of me thinks the kid's right. He asks what he's done to deserve this. He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But then another part of me thinks, what if by some miracle we stay, then actually make it out of here. Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, shitty mess. Like you said, Captain, maybe we do that, we all earn the right to go home.
He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.