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I have the same problem with war that MM has with religion. Too often - especially in America - it's set up as a sacred institution immune to criticism or suggested indecency.
If you think you're unaffected by this, let me ask what are the first images that come to mind when someone mentions the Kmer Rouge? Pol Pot, a pile of corpses, and not much else. Now how about World War 2? Tanks, planes, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, FDR, clean news reel footage, then finally maybe down at around #8 the concentration camps but almost never piles and piles of dead soldiers. Piles of dead soldiers? Get that shit out of here! This is the greatest generation! Time to let the romanticisation of them justify every conflict for the next 60 years!
The holocaust museum is the only Western memorial to get it right. If you're not willing to primarily present it as a series of corpse photography then you're being dishonest and doing the next generation a disservice. I can't believe Worm actually brought up Gettysburg as a counter example to this: a quaint little gift shop of parade memorabilia.
I also can't stomach CoD single player campaigns if he wants to know. I may play Battlefield 3, but I'm not planning to visit Iraq's Highway of Death anytime soon.
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Planning a summer vacation to France in 2014 by laudablepuss 02/20/2012, 7:16am PST 
I'm going to Risa to read my book and go spelunking! NT by Jean Luc Picard 02/20/2012, 8:54am PST 
I think "spelunking" is a euphemism on Risa. Be careful, buddy. NT by laudablepuss 02/20/2012, 9:25am PST 
Re: Planning a summer vacation to France in 2014 by Mysterio Jones 02/20/2012, 10:44am PST 
Are you planning a China trip for the 100th anniversy of Nanking rape? by fabio 02/21/2012, 12:08am PST 
Haha ok by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 12:15am PST 
Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? NT by Inside the mind of Laudable 02/21/2012, 12:49am PST 
Did I log into the citizens against civil war reenactment forum? NT by Worm 02/21/2012, 1:06am PST 
Most civill war reenactors are racist gun nuts. They should be shunned. NT by fact 02/21/2012, 1:53am PST 
True. NT by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 2:20am PST 
Yeah but there's nothing inherently wrong with the reenactment. by Worm 02/21/2012, 10:50am PST 
Re: Yeah but there's nothing inherently wrong with the reenactment. by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 6:26pm PST 
Gettysburg! by fabio 02/22/2012, 5:19am PST 
Re: Gettysburg! by laudablepuss 02/22/2012, 6:28am PST 
A museum dares to have a gift shop, but North & South ... that's fucking art. by Worm 02/22/2012, 7:53am PST 
doesn't that pretty much describe the american revolution by Rafiki 02/22/2012, 11:54am PST 
Re: Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 1:14am PST 
Re: Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 2:19am PST 
Re: Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? by Mischief Professional 02/21/2012, 6:24pm PST 
Yeah that's a really disgusting thing only armchair enthusiasts would say by fabio 02/22/2012, 5:44am PST 
I don't know that I would blame the armchair enthusiasts... by Mischief Professional 02/22/2012, 12:09pm PST 
Re: I don't know that I would blame the armchair enthusiasts... by fabio 02/22/2012, 1:03pm PST 
War implies consent by both parties involved. NT by Mischief Professional 02/22/2012, 1:35pm PST 
I dunno about that. But if that was true of any war . . . by laudablepuss 02/22/2012, 4:55pm PST 
I'm not sure Poland would agree by fabio 02/26/2012, 11:33am PST 
^not unlike NT by fabio 02/26/2012, 11:34am PST 
Re: I don't know that I would blame the armchair enthusiasts... by laudablepuss 02/22/2012, 4:48pm PST 
Yes one sided slaughter is different from mutual slaughter. NT by Worm 02/22/2012, 12:30pm PST 
Sorry I didn't describe how: one is one sided the other isn't NT by Worm 02/22/2012, 12:31pm PST 
Re: Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? NT by Laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 2:27am PST 
Re: Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? NT by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 2:29am PST 
Re: Birthdays vs atrocity tourism. What's the difference? NT by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 10:42am PST 
Serious question by fabio 02/21/2012, 4:36pm PST 
I still don't understand how those are analogous to World War 1. NT by Worm 02/21/2012, 5:25pm PST 
How is building a teeth necklace different from collecting severed limbs? NT by fabio 02/21/2012, 5:59pm PST 
Re: How is building a teeth necklace different from collecting severed limbs? by fabio 02/21/2012, 6:14pm PST 
A+ would converse with again NT by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 6:16pm PST 
Re: Serious question by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 6:15pm PST 
How are they different? by fabio 02/21/2012, 6:23pm PST 
Re: How are they different? by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 6:31pm PST 
Where was this fabio when CoD came out? NT by Worm 02/21/2012, 11:46pm PST 
You're above the question. Nice. by fabio 02/22/2012, 5:37am PST 
Re: You're above the question. Nice. by laudablepuss 02/22/2012, 6:25am PST 
why be interested in anything rather than anything else? NT by albear camoo 02/21/2012, 6:31pm PST 
The Hurt Locker dudes need to make a WWI movie NT by Roop 02/22/2012, 6:56am PST 
Going to the German speaking parts of France for that extra WWI ironic goodness? NT by Mischief Professional 02/21/2012, 6:42pm PST 
Re: Going to the German speaking parts of France for that extra WWI ironic goodn by laudablepuss 02/21/2012, 7:11pm PST 
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