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[Edit - Just read your reply Snowman999 and I can't help feeling just a little bit dim now, thinking just about my own personal bit of fun. Your comment hits the nail I guess, I'll now look at that intro in a completely different way. Thanks for your point of view m8.]
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Thanks.
I know I'm naive, in this hyper-PC corporate enviro we live in, but I'd hoped the game would take the opportunity to do even a modicum of historical education for the young people increasingly ignorant of these events. Some of the men in these boats hung out at our house in Hawaii, fifteen years older and wiser, and they weren't robotic killing machines, nor were they Milton-lovers. They were guys who grew up in the Depression and then, just as things looked a little better, got handed a s**t sandwich by foreign governments and forces that stole a lot of their youth.
They did a hard, nasty job and did it well. Yes, there was racism and hatred involved. That's war. (Talk to somebody just back from Iraq; some things never change.) But they knew they were doing the right thing and that faiilng to win would change the course of history in a bad, bad way.
Modern Americans don't viscerally understand that feeling any more. Maybe if 9/11 had been perpetrated by a naiton-state, one that was professing peace in direct negotiations in Washington that very day, our citizens would understand the rage that led to unrestricted submarine ops, machine-gnning surviving soldiers in the water, and, yes, the banner in that photo, three-plus years later.
I know it's too much to expect Ubi to teach history, but I hope, after seeing the mods from SH3, that someone can quickly gin up at least a USS Arizona model so I may render honors on my way out to sea . . .