LAST EDITED ON 06-08-04 AT 07:45 AM (EDT)
 
>Whoa... None of the documentaries I've ever seen made any mention of
>the Coast Gaurdsmen being there. Looks like I have to research this
>subject more thoroghly. In a ways, I kinda regret not having anyone
>in the family who stormed the beaches of Normandy. Rather, my
>Grandfather, God rest his soul, and his brothers were in the Pacific,
>helping to take back Midway, Polynesia, and the Philpines. Not that
>that wasn't a brave and honorable thing.
>
>-NeoRaven

My grandfather, who passed on some years back (mid ninties), wouldn't discuss it much, but he served as a medical corpsman in the Pacific Theater. He was ashore at Okinawa and Iwo Jima. He had mentioned a few things about being in the war. But he was always close lipped about it. As he was an art teacher by trade, I believe he served simply because he felt he needed to serve. Once his time in the service was done he went back to being an art teacher and an artist and moved on.

One thing I've never been able to discover about World War 2, is how veterans of the war feel about the proliferation of games that deal with the war. I play Battlefield 1942 often as well as some strategy and war games based on the period. There are also board games and pencil and paper games dealing with this time period. I have always been curious how people feel about events that are re-enacted over and over like this. Is it something that should be handled just through writing and documentary? Or is this interactive method more dramatic, more real to the source?

Since I'm at work, I've not listened to your reading of the rant, but your writing is spot on. Good job, Gryph.

Tom 'Dreamshadow' Tjarks
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