06-08-2004, 04:16 AM
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D-Day OD- World War II nostaglia has gone too far
Just so you know, this article is total bullshit, written by someone who has a hatred for the military and the acknowledgement of actual history.
We live in a time when the big news of Memorial Day is usually high gas prices, huge traffic, and bar b que's, but that's really not a reason to counter it with high gloss coverage of our fallen.
I'm a lil over 20 years done on this planet, living in this country, and, sure, I've seen enough shows, read enough books, and stood and watched enough speechs, coming to an understanding of what so many people did for this country, and for the world, in the pursuit of trying to bring peace. And I'm sure that there are millions of people, just like myself, who understand what those sacrafices mean. But I loathe and detest those that say "Yawn, I've seen all this before, we heard about D-Day twenty years ago, why we gotta hear about it every fucking year?"
Why? Because everyday, thousands of people enter this world, knowing absolutely nothing, and spend their youths, and their lives, seeking to understand the world we live in, and how we came to be at the very point at which we reflect upon things. And they weren't around 20 years ago when Reagan made his famous speech, and they weren't around ten years ago, and there are those that weren't around this past week, when we reflect upon D-Day; after all, it was only the greatest military operation in the history of mankind.
It's not about nostalagia for most of us. No one is jerking off to thoughts of men storming the beach at Normandy. We don't watch just to hear about men dying, areas being re-taken, battles being won and lost. We hear these stories, and we reflect, with the underlying thought that these men are going across the oceans which seperate us from most of the world, to fight battles to protect not only our freedom, but the freedom of the rest of the world. It captures our attention, when we focus in at the scale of one man, zoom out to the scale of a company, and then further out to divisions, armies. All of these people, fighting for us. Why?
That's a question that ought to be asked by every god damned American citizen, and I don't care if my fuckin television gets blitzed for one week every year by coverage of this spectacular moment in American history, even if I have heard the story a million times now, because there ARE people out there who have yet to ask that question, and if a huge media blitz gets them to ask it, then go right ahead.
Besides, I can always watch Nickelodeon GAS or G4 Tech TV instead.
Quote:Shit, it got more than the 40th anniversary of D-day.
D-Day OD- World War II nostaglia has gone too far
Just so you know, this article is total bullshit, written by someone who has a hatred for the military and the acknowledgement of actual history.
We live in a time when the big news of Memorial Day is usually high gas prices, huge traffic, and bar b que's, but that's really not a reason to counter it with high gloss coverage of our fallen.
I'm a lil over 20 years done on this planet, living in this country, and, sure, I've seen enough shows, read enough books, and stood and watched enough speechs, coming to an understanding of what so many people did for this country, and for the world, in the pursuit of trying to bring peace. And I'm sure that there are millions of people, just like myself, who understand what those sacrafices mean. But I loathe and detest those that say "Yawn, I've seen all this before, we heard about D-Day twenty years ago, why we gotta hear about it every fucking year?"
Why? Because everyday, thousands of people enter this world, knowing absolutely nothing, and spend their youths, and their lives, seeking to understand the world we live in, and how we came to be at the very point at which we reflect upon things. And they weren't around 20 years ago when Reagan made his famous speech, and they weren't around ten years ago, and there are those that weren't around this past week, when we reflect upon D-Day; after all, it was only the greatest military operation in the history of mankind.
It's not about nostalagia for most of us. No one is jerking off to thoughts of men storming the beach at Normandy. We don't watch just to hear about men dying, areas being re-taken, battles being won and lost. We hear these stories, and we reflect, with the underlying thought that these men are going across the oceans which seperate us from most of the world, to fight battles to protect not only our freedom, but the freedom of the rest of the world. It captures our attention, when we focus in at the scale of one man, zoom out to the scale of a company, and then further out to divisions, armies. All of these people, fighting for us. Why?
That's a question that ought to be asked by every god damned American citizen, and I don't care if my fuckin television gets blitzed for one week every year by coverage of this spectacular moment in American history, even if I have heard the story a million times now, because there ARE people out there who have yet to ask that question, and if a huge media blitz gets them to ask it, then go right ahead.
Besides, I can always watch Nickelodeon GAS or G4 Tech TV instead.