Chilling Saving Private Ryan Remake
When will we as a world stop causing families so much pain, so much suffering? When will we be able to live together again, instead of taking life away….. My tears flowed when I heard about Jason Hubbard and his family.
“A US soldier has been withdrawn from Iraq after his two brothers were killed in action, echoing the Oscar-winning film “Saving Private Ryan”, it was reported Friday.
Jason Hubbard, 33, will return to his family’s home in northern California after younger brother Nathan, 21, was one of 14 soldiers killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq on Wednesday.
The death came three years after a roadside bombing claimed the life of another sibling, Jared, 22, in Fallujah in 2004, reports said.
Jason was withdrawn under the military’s “sole survivor” policy aimed at preventing parents losing all of their children to war.
The case bears a striking similarity to Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film about a mission to recover a soldier from northern France after all his brothers are killed during the D-Day landings.
“Art imitates life, and unfortunately sometimes life imitates art,” an army official who asked not to be identified told AFP.
Jason Hubbard had been travelling in another helicopter accompanying the Black Hawk chopper which crashed on Wednesday, according to reports…..
A priest and family friend, Tim Rolen, said the Hubbard family was struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.
“The word I would not use is destroyed. This is a family with strong ties, strong connections. It won’t destroy them, but it will get them about as close as you can get to that,” he told the Fresno Bee newspaper….Later that year he had signed up along with elder brother Jason, a former policeman. The brothers’ mother said she believed Jason had joined to protect his younger brother. In an interview shortly before his deployment to Iraq, Nathan said he was unfazed by the risk he could be killed.
“People are going to be hurt, and people are going to be killed,” he said. That is the reality you have to accept, but not dwell on.
“If I worried about dying … I would live too cautious, and I want to live a very great life,” he said.”
How telling that last phrase, maybe hero Nathan had it right…we never know how long we have in this world and living it to the full is all we can do…god bless the family.
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