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Remembering Private Ispass

Often, films can help up cross the boundaries we set between ourselves and allow us to see pieces of one another that would otherwise have remained hidden. Saving Private Ryan did that for my grandfather and me. He passed away this week, and it has left me contemplating what it was about that movie, and what it was about his life, that held me captivated.


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