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I think the boat scene with the boy dying was important. Yes it did pull at the heart strings but the father could of turned back when he was injured but instead chose to keep going because he knew their troops were in peril.

EDIT: FYI The father had lost and older son who was a Hurricane pilot a few weeks earlier. Such sacrifice is hard for us to understand but that's what it took for them to prevail.