It’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving. Time to crowd around a table and eat turkey until your pants scream for you to stop.
This time last year, I was packing for a road trip from Baltimore, MD to Camp Lejeune, NC to visit my Marine. He was unable to drive home to Baltimore for Thanksgiving because his truck had been involved in a accident week prior and was awaiting repair.
This will be my Marine’s first Thanksgiving home with family in five years because he was either on deployment or on base at Lejeune, so this Thanksgiving is special to me because it is the first of many I’ll be spending with my extended family and my Marine.
This Thanksgiving I am thankful for:
- My brother and my father for sticking beside me through my entire life
- My Marine’s parents for raising the man I love
- My friends for being the best friends I know
- My freedom to maintain and write on this blog without government censorship
- Every member of the Armed Forces because it’s those men and women who assure we will maintain our freedoms in this country
What are you thankful for?
Categories: Opinion
Tagged: milfamilies, milgirlfriend, Thanksgiving 2009
Still from the terrorist scene in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
The newly released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is on the receiving end of controversy due to their level depicting terrorism in an airport.
In the beginning of the game, the user is warned of a “disturbing, graphic” level, but that’s only after you’ve opened the packaging and began playing the game. If you’re offended, you can’t return the game due to store policies, so you’re stuck with a game you find appalling.
My boyfriend purchased the game and when I saw the terrorism level, where innocent airport patrons are gunned down like sitting ducks, I was shocked and cannot believe the creators chose to include that story line, especially due to this country’s sensitivity to terrorism in our airports after 9/11.
On the topic of veterans, I feel the aforementioned level of the game is a smack in the face to everyone who was/is a victim of terrorism, and every member of the Armed Forces who fought and fight to ensure this country doesn’t experience terrorism in our country. I do not have a problem with the game as a hole because it’s a fairly realistic representation of a combat environment, but the graphic depiction of terrorism is, in my opinion, in bad taste.
Is it too soon to include this storyline in entertainment?
Should there be more obvious outside packaging warning gamers of the storyline’s content?
Who has played the game?
What does everyone think of the game so far?
Categories: Entertainment · Opinion
Tagged: Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2, Russian game ban, terrorism, Terrorism in Modern Warfare 2, terrorists
