Let's remember November 11th

[Verthanthi]

His point is that we keep sending people to their deaths.

[Fit of Rage]

I participated in a flag retirement ceremony this morning. I kind of agree with Dimboy (much as it pains me), that we should all show respect in real life, but come on, this is a spaceship game. Let's just play and have fun.

[King Baba]

Games = virtual reality, but does that not make a virtual reality apart of modern reality?

If people feel they should pay respects in any way they can, be it on these forums, in-game, or a tatoo on their ass (hey...who knows?) then is a choice of their own, just as it is a choice of YOURS to read it.

As for remembering everyday of the year, I couldn't agree more. However, in Canada, it IS a national holiday. It gives people a chance to pay their respects through learning of the feats that our grandfathers.

Just chill. It is still just a game, but it's a game people like to play, that also like to remember.

Thank ya. Lest we forget.

[Dim]

Originally posted by Under Dog
Ok, this is going to be my biggest attempt at a rant ever, so bear with me:

First of all, I would like to begin my pointing out the fact that you, dimboy, hosted ww5 at least once or twice. So by saying you have a problem endorsing real life issue's in a 2d space ship game, and hosting an event based on real events is contradictory and your entire argument should be invalidated.

So it isn't really a rant, but hey, I tried.

And I would just like to say, veterans day (the US holiday) is a load of bull shit. The fact that we [americans] need a special day to remember people who died in war, instead of making every day one where we don't forget our history is idiotic. Today was made out to be a day to remember those in Iraq, first of all, they are not veterans, we are more in war then we were when we bombed baghdad. Secondy, why not remember the Iraqi's we slaughter on a day to day basis because they could be terrorists, when we were there to overthrow sadamm, the man with invisible weapons of mass destruction.

I have hosted ww5 once, I like ww5 as an event as it resembles no paticular war if it was called World War 2/1 and there were images of hitler, I wouldnt host it, or if it was remembered because what happened there, I wouldnt.

I have to say I still think it was out of order. I'm sure the people who faught in that war did not want to be:

LOLOLOL0LZ90LS90L0LROFL0LOLOLOLOL'Z at.

[Jason]

I used to shoot paintballs at the side of my local VFW. Happy fucking Veteran's Day.

[GuruMeditation]

Originally posted by froedrick
Well both my grandfathers fought in the second world war veh. They risked Their lives so that in turn I would end up with a better future. There is no braver act in my book. And they had friends die in front of them over there in europe, and Africa and they want us to remember those who died to give us a better future. That's not bullshit at all.

For the Second World War it's May 8th (commemorating VE day).
Armistice day (11th November) is for the first.

2 minutes of your time every year to remember the 70 million people who died during the wars.

[Acidmouse]

gg to all those who did us proud against the nazi's!

[ZeUs!!]

Originally posted by froedrick
Well both my grandfathers fought in the second world war veh.

My grandfather was in the second world war too, I only found this out last week. He was in the first wave of attacks on d-day on Utah beach. He never used to talk about it, and then I saw Saving Private Ryan for the first time last week and I realised why. He said that he lost his best friend, he only referred to him as 'Jamie', they were running up the beach together and he got shot. My grandad got some shrapnel in his arm - I think this was a little after d-day - and was put on a boat back to Liverpool. He told me that when he was lying on the ground outside the medical tent the guy next to him leaned over to him and said that they would amputate it and if he moved it he could keep it, so he did. He passed away about a week before valentines day 2000

[Dim]

ZeUs!! please, show your grandfather what this game is like, the racism, swearing and bad tension there is in it. And then ask him, would he like to the game to be an imitation of him and his friends?

[Troll King]

You see, Dimboy, the mistake you made in your initial post is to not have a noted target for people to rally against, like what happened to IceStorm for his game in memory of 9/11.

[Shogun]

Dimboy, it is just a game, so why should you care if an event meant to commemorate Veteran's Day is held in the first place? Stop your useless whining, god.

[Kim]

ww5 has given me visions of what war is really like, die once and you'll get stuck in an endless cyclical chain of deaths until you die out. Especially asians, they don't like the asians.

[froedrick]

Originally posted by ZeUs!!
He passed away about a week before valentines day 2000

How do you expect him to tell his grandfather. Wake up and read the whole post first moron.

[sexy wooden spoon]

Dimboy, i am really starting to think that u dont have an alias, Dimboy is just what people call u in real life.

sws

[King Baba]

Originally posted by froedrick
How do you expect him to tell his grandfather. Wake up and read the whole post first moron.

Exactly what I was just about to say.