He is Ryan's father. "I was with my son the day he was born and I,unfortunately, had to be with my son in the hospital on the day he died.

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I think almost 20,000 on that day died, and in the Battle of the Somme, as it unfolded, there were a million casualties.

在那一天我想大概有两万名士兵死去，并且在索姆河战役中，据显示，有一百万死者。

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