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I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.
— Capt. John Miller · Saving Private Ryan
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker admits that each killing does not bring them closer to the end of the ordeal but pushes home further out of reach. Taking lives feels like a measurable loss of belonging, a growing distance between who they were and where they came from.
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