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Ping Panther · 09-10-08, 02:02 PM

I just made it to my big 40 this past January. So that means I was an early vintage '68 kid.

I developed a very significant interest in world/military history from my early teenage years. I have always had an immediate appreciation for attempting to comprehend the enormous scope of how history, cultures, geopraphy, technology, diplomacy (often not having the best of possitive effects), attributes to the way one interprets the past and the present times. So this may have boiled down into an odly-combined life interest of architectural/cultural matters & military tactics/technologies & historic roles.

I would agree that the European/Atlantic campaigns of this era is more self-identifiable to Americans in their world history education (or lack of it). Since most Americans tend to have a strong majority of their ancestory linked to some landmark from Europe/U.K./Africa. While I would consider based only on my post-WW2 birth comprehension allows, was that the most immediate call to arms fury was was more stronly rooted in the U.S. to the military threat presented by the Japanese forces at the time as being perceived as more immediately urgent, despite the ongoing strife that the German forces had pressed for a considerable amount of years previously, yet it was determined at that time to be blurred from the American perception or direct policies to engage such a direct action. Once this has aged a couple generations of time, my experiences of the highschool education program did lean a certain 75% to the educational matters of the Atlantic war more than the Pacific.

My Grandmother had a brother serve in the U.S. Sub Fleet in the Pacific (he was involved more directly in the '43-'44 patrols, stationed at that time at Midway Naval Base. He attended submariners training school at the U.S. Sub base in New London, CT. (I recently made a visit to this base and viewed the USS-Nautilus sub & museum.) My Grandfather was in the Army (he had preferred to serve in the Navy; however, he was sorted 1-2-1-2... at the last minute in the enlistment offices, 1's were sent to the Navy... he drew a 2... Army you go!),and was deployed into the occupational forces in Japan after the bombing of Hiroshima. He contiuned from his Army career to join the U.S. Merchant Service in the Great Lakes. My Grandfather quite often took me, my brother & my folks for sails around Lake Erie when I was a kid, and I love sailing and the sea ever since. My Dad served in the U.S. Navy, and served on board the destroyer fleets in the Atlantic/Mediterranean Sea in the early '60's. So Silent Hunter has given me some immediate link back to some of my family naval heritage. (I took all 6 years of my highschool German as a second language courses, again, as a link to my Germanic family roots, and then along comes SH3 with the awesome German audio voice option.)

My first sub-simulator experiences were with Silent Service on a Commodore-128. I missed out on SH1, I then came across SH2 for a while, then took a big pause and have steadily wrapped myself even more, into an ever-continuing fascination/appreciation/dedication to exploring the many aspects of this era brought to a technological wonder inside of SH3. I hope to get my now dusty almost 2 year old disk of SH4 off the shelf and give it a spin, maybe.

09-10-08, 02:02 PM	#24
Ping Panther Lieutenant Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: the armpit of the Mid-Atlantic / Quadrant CA42 Posts: 262 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I just made it to my big 40 this past January. So that means I was an early vintage '68 kid. I developed a very significant interest in world/military history from my early teenage years. I have always had an immediate appreciation for attempting to comprehend the enormous scope of how history, cultures, geopraphy, technology, diplomacy (often not having the best of possitive effects), attributes to the way one interprets the past and the present times. So this may have boiled down into an odly-combined life interest of architectural/cultural matters & military tactics/technologies & historic roles. I would agree that the European/Atlantic campaigns of this era is more self-identifiable to Americans in their world history education (or lack of it). Since most Americans tend to have a strong majority of their ancestory linked to some landmark from Europe/U.K./Africa. While I would consider based only on my post-WW2 birth comprehension allows, was that the most immediate call to arms fury was was more stronly rooted in the U.S. to the military threat presented by the Japanese forces at the time as being perceived as more immediately urgent, despite the ongoing strife that the German forces had pressed for a considerable amount of years previously, yet it was determined at that time to be blurred from the American perception or direct policies to engage such a direct action. Once this has aged a couple generations of time, my experiences of the highschool education program did lean a certain 75% to the educational matters of the Atlantic war more than the Pacific. My Grandmother had a brother serve in the U.S. Sub Fleet in the Pacific (he was involved more directly in the '43-'44 patrols, stationed at that time at Midway Naval Base. He attended submariners training school at the U.S. Sub base in New London, CT. (I recently made a visit to this base and viewed the USS-Nautilus sub & museum.) My Grandfather was in the Army (he had preferred to serve in the Navy; however, he was sorted 1-2-1-2... at the last minute in the enlistment offices, 1's were sent to the Navy... he drew a 2... Army you go!),and was deployed into the occupational forces in Japan after the bombing of Hiroshima. He contiuned from his Army career to join the U.S. Merchant Service in the Great Lakes. My Grandfather quite often took me, my brother & my folks for sails around Lake Erie when I was a kid, and I love sailing and the sea ever since. My Dad served in the U.S. Navy, and served on board the destroyer fleets in the Atlantic/Mediterranean Sea in the early '60's. So Silent Hunter has given me some immediate link back to some of my family naval heritage. (I took all 6 years of my highschool German as a second language courses, again, as a link to my Germanic family roots, and then along comes SH3 with the awesome German audio voice option.) My first sub-simulator experiences were with Silent Service on a Commodore-128. I missed out on SH1, I then came across SH2 for a while, then took a big pause and have steadily wrapped myself even more, into an ever-continuing fascination/appreciation/dedication to exploring the many aspects of this era brought to a technological wonder inside of SH3. I hope to get my now dusty almost 2 year old disk of SH4 off the shelf and give it a spin, maybe. Last edited by Ping Panther; 09-10-08 at 02:29 PM.