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Originally Posted by maerean_m
Back in the WWII, medals were awarded to people who fought and died for their country. It is not fair to all those heroes to award the "real" Medal of Honour to someone who plays a game for 2 hours, in the comfort of their home.
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I both respect your opinion and disagree with it at the same time. This is a simulation game, for entertainment purposes only, and I prefer realism in my games.
The people who did this in real life are my true heroes in life. Eugene Fluckey, Capt. of the USS Barb, is larger than life to me, he was always full of ideas that were way ahead of his time. To quote something Carl LaVO said about Fluckey, LaVO said that Fluckey always did his best to "
overcome any obstacle, as he did in defying physicians by reversing severe near-sightedness that would have forced him to resign from the Naval Academy prior to his graduation in 1935". Isn't that amazing, totally incredible to have that much desire and drive to achieve what he wanted that he figured that out and did it himself?
I see a game like this as honoring heroes like these people, keeping their memories alive by simulating what they went through. I'm not trying to take anything from them, I want to be like them, even if it's just a simulated game. We live in an era in life where people now call sports figures heroes, or rock stars, or movie actors. I think the world has forgotten what a real hero looks like, what they did, what they endured, and that many gave their all for the cause.
Yes I enjoy this game, but had I not read about these heroes I doubt seriously I'd invest the time I do in games such as this to help remember exactly what they experienced. I see it this way, this game honors people Gene Fluckey and Dick O'Kane, or even the common crew members of boats that made it through the war and even boats that didn't and are still on eternal patrol. Our world will never be the same again, these people stood on the bow of their boats while leaving Pearl Harbor and passing all the ships sunk during the attack and they wept like babies with no shame or feelings of dishonor in their doing so because they knew it was their brothers in arms still laying dead incapsulated in those capsized ships.
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Originally Posted by maerean_m
Others may be doing it in their games, but that doesn't mean is ok. This is one of the problems of today's media, that it builds egos the size of a house without any real merit on "your" part. Let's not be selfish and consider/imagine what the war was like.
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People get killed in this simulation, haven't you noticed. Last time I checked with the local police killing people was illegal, are we wrong in that also. Believe it or not I've been told that before, it's wrong to simulate killing people. I swear, some people take things way overboard.
You almost offend me with your "selfish" statement to the point I almost want to say, "how dare you for suggesting I'm selfish and trying to take something without any merit". Yes it's a fact of life no two people are ever going to agree on things, but I think you went a bit overboard saying this to someone you don't know and have absolutely zero clue about my feelings towards these amazing people. I so admired Dick O'Kane that I spoke to him numerous times in the early 1980's, even his wife Ernie phoned me when Dick passed away. I would take nothing from this man, I would do nothing what-so-ever in this world to demish who he was or what he did, nor would I for Gene Fluckey or any other single soul who fought the great fight for our freedom.
In playing and enjoying this game I'm not in any form or fashion trying to compare myself to the real heroes these people were and always will be, I'm just trying to enjoy the game. I'm fascinated by what they went through, their stories are amazing to me, they all are my heroes whether they won medals or not. Every single one of them whether they were black, brown, white, or whatever color, who climbed down in one of those steel tubes for months at a time breathing stale air with so little oxygen at times they couldn't even light a match and traveled across the ocean to deliver torpedoes to Japanese shipping, they are all my heroes! Playing this game and getting awards for doing well in the game in no way at all deminishes anything they ever did, there's not a one of them alive today that I wouldn't give my life to save, nor would I hesitate to extend my hand and shake theirs gladly thanking them for what they did for me even though I wasn't born yet.
Okay I've stepped back and taken a breath or two .. guess you got me fired up. Like I said, I agree with you in one way but don't in another, but in not agreeing with me I think you overstepped your bounds with the "selfish" statement because you have no idea who I am in this world and you quite obviously don't realize that I have more respect for these heroes than I do for anyone else in the world either.
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