Comments | kilroyfirelizrd: 11/11/11 & Skyrim OMG!!!

kilroyfirelizrd

11/11/11 & Skyrim OMG!!!

Nov 11, 2011 18:34

So as the subject says, today is November 11, 2011 (or 11/11/11, all ones). It is also the release date for Skyrim, a very anticipated game. And from the looks of my Twitter stream that's all today is. Now I can excuse non-americans for this because that's all today really is for most of them. But the rest of us? Really? Really??

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kjorteo November 12 2011, 05:17:18 UTC

Oh, Skyrim came out today? I totally forgot. God knows I don't have time for it anyway....

kilroyfirelizrd November 12 2011, 12:48:36 UTC

Heh, yeah. Same, although I'm more of the opinion of Didn't know, Didn't care :D I haven't played any of the prior games so I just don't have the hype yet!

kjorteo November 12 2011, 17:14:45 UTC

There was a time when I was totally looking forward to Skyrim, like, counting down the days like everyone else.

Then I got a full-time job.

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kilroyfirelizrd November 12 2011, 12:59:12 UTC

Well even so it's not like there are no more veterans, period. I think most of today's youth might be old enough to know about the Gulf War, maybe the Korean War (not entirely sure when that took place though), and I think we can still throw the Vietnam war in there, since those veterans would be granparents by now. There's also Desert Storm, and the second Iraq war (which I guess we're still fighting?), and let's not forget the current War on Terror. There's at least two of those that are kind of a big deal today, and save for the Vietnam and Korean (maybe Desert Storm as well?) wars these veterans would be fathers by now so really today's youth have no excuses for this. Although I suppose the big difference between these wars is save for the War on Terror they didn't really have a big impact on Americans, and unlike the Vietnam war they weren't resorting to drafting people, so perhaps not as many Americans (percentage-wise) were fighting ( ... )

r_caton November 14 2011, 00:14:03 UTC

My dad fought in WW2 and my Grandad was at Gallipoli in 1915!
I think it was good that a year or so back they could still muster one Great War veteran apiece for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force (RAF=RFC/RNAS) at the Cenotaph. Now they are gone and there are none who have combat experience of the War To End All Wars.
Interesting point is that Vietnam has no Unknown Soldier.... they had one, but he has been identified by DNA and claimed, he is "Known Only To God" no longer.
When I was a boy it was just WW1, WW2, Korea ...
now we have the Falklands, Northern Ireland (love that Noraid!), Desert Storm 1991 Afghanistan and the current CF in Iraq.
I think lack of faith in "the War" isn't a lack of faith in the serving men and women who fight for us but in the moral-free shites who pick the fights in the first place. And i WOULD place Bl'iar and Bush amongst those.