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Towlie

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4. Captain Miller (Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan) saw it otherwise.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:02 PM
Aug 24
Captain Miller: You see, when... when you end up killing one of your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others. Do you know how many men I've lost under my command?

Sergeant Horvath: How many?

Captain Miller: Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? Twenty times as many? And that's how simple it is. That's how you... that's how you rationalize making the choice between the mission and the man.


Edit, link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/quotes/?item=qt0441654&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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