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Editorial
November  2001


Feeling Thankful

     Happy Thanksgiving to all you grey wolves out there!

    I would like to take a second to wish you the best of the upcoming holiday season and touch on some matters, large and small, for which I am personally thankful.

I’m thankful that my wife and children are healthy and happy.

I’m thankful that I have been healthy, employed, well-fed, loved by a wonderful family.

I am thankful that SUBSIM Review, the little ol’ homepage that began in 1997 with a half-dozen reviews, has grown into an international submarine simulation community with over 17,000 unique visitors and 3.3 million hits a month.

I’m thankful that the idea we began over a year ago as a support club for Silent Hunter II has grown into a unique, interesting, and fun Wolfpack League with nearly 4000 members, of which over 2950 are still active.

I’m thankful to Frank Kulick, US Navy and Subsim.com subject matter expert. Without Frank, SSR would not have that authoritative edge on matters that many other websites lack.

Extra special thanks to Bill Nichols for his unceasing hard work in the naval news dept.

I’m thankful that Rick Martinez, Shawn Storc, Carl Norman, Michael Shelling, Kerry Bratner, Marc Fish, Ms Conroe, Sharon O’Donnell, and the rest of SSI allowed Subsim.com to join in the effort to make SHII the best WWII subsim ever. We’re getting there.

Special thanks to Shawn for the Cajun dinner in Baton Rogue. Food is always important.

I’m thankful that Mark Kundinger, Troy Heere, Brian Tuohy, David Twist, Dave Bringhurst, and the crew at Ultimation took on SHII without flinching when they were plenty busy with getting Destroyer Command completed. I also want to thank Ultimation for bearing up under a million requests, demands, inquiries, and useless wonderful ideas I’ve thrown at then for 15 months.

I’m thankful that Steve Groll, Mike Jeffries, and Electronic Arts have seen fit to bring Subsim.com into the wonderful world of Sub Command.

I’m thankful that Kim Castro, Mike Kolar, Todd Swain, Don LaForce, and the talented, hard-working crew at Sonalysts for Sub Command all they’ve done to advance nuke subsims. Without Sonalsysts, Fast Attack would have been the last nuke subsim made, back in 1996.

I’m thankful that Robert Mayer and Computer Games Magazine still keep me up to date and entertained on a monthly basis with the excellent magazine.

I would like to extend a special thanks to some of the notable, bright, and just plain cool people who have made Wolfpack League and Subsim.com what it is: Hatchet, Jason Dorris, Brad Moore, Tom Morris, Mario Esteban, Jamie Blake, John Channing, Pops, Danny Adamson, Sharkstooth, Werner von Leitz, Rommel McDonald, Nemesis, Bowshot, Doc Snyder, Robert Nighthawk, Brian "Sabre" Sinclair, Brian C Barnes, Capt McBeck, Thomsen, Odin, Sea Beast, Jackyl, Chooky, Neil McJunkin, Rick Getreide, Michael "Punish" Burger, all the Flotilla, Fleet, and Division Commanders, Language Specialists, and many more people who I can’t list because their names would fill the page.

Special thanks to Rudi Peck for engineering the great database scoring system that will serve WPL well.

Thanks to author Michael DiMercurio (ussdevilfish.com) for his support and assistance.

Thanks to Eduardo Pérez Orúe for his expert business advice. I’m learning.

I’m thankful for SimHQ, NWS, Gone Gold, and a lot of other websites that contribute to my enjoyment of the web.

I’m thankful to the male passengers on Flight 93 who sized up the situation and charged the terrorists, bringing the plane down before it could be smashed into the Washington capitol dome.

I’m thankful for President Bush and the Congress for working together to defeat murderous terrorists.

I’m thankful for the support of Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, and the other nations who support the Cause.

I’m thankful for Pittmurph, Dean Gillespie, and the United States Marines, Special Forces, Navy, Air Force, Rangers, Army, Coast Guard, and other members of the armed services. You make the world safe and secure to a degree few realize or care to admit. You are it.

I’m thankful for the veterans of the armed forces and their contributions to the security of civilization.

And I am thankful for you, the reader, who has visited SUBSIM Review once or a thousand times. I hope Subsim will continue to inform, assist, entertain, and interest you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Neal Stevens
Editor,
SUBSIM Review

 

 

 

   

 

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