Fuckin' A, man.

There's that new Battlefield game coming out this year. Looks fun and all, but it's obviously action movie material.

The stuff you drew captures the horrid reality of the war. It wasn't carrying around a Lewis gun dressed up as some metal bondage knight. It wasn't ramming your biplane into zepellins and battleships, like I can guarantee will be happening once the game's out.

It was being stuck in the trenches, hoping the other side wouldn't snipe your brains out, or get perforated by an MG nest, or die of trench foot or starvation, and so much other shit that can't really be replicated in a multiplayer shooter.

Let us all remember the realities of that war, and all the sacrifices that were made, lives that were lost. Don't let all the brave men that died in that horrid war have their sacrifices be in vain. Remember what the real thing was like.

Canada sacrificed so much in that war, yet we're pretty much lumped in with the British at best. We were the Empire's shock troops, for crying out loud. Vimy Ridge and so many other battles and theaters. And yet so many Canadians don't give a fuck about that. It's embarrassing.

Yeah, battlefield 1 looks like it's probably a fun game, but also the exact opposite of what a Great War game should be.
As for people not caring, I think it might be in part that in the Americas we don't have something like Europe's iron harvest to put it back into our memories every year.

Chemical testing was done at CFB Suffield here in Alberta during the Second World War, CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick was used for testing Agent Orange during the 1960s. Beyond that, no we don't have to deal with unexploded ordnance from the World Wars as much as Europe does because we had the good fortune of not having our homelands being the frontlines, like with France and Germany.

That said, as much as we have our memorial day weekends and shit, I strongly fear that all the sacrifices that our countries' soldiers made for our freedom we're supposed to enjoy is increasingly becoming for nothing. They died for a better world, a better future for their family, friends, and country, and here we are nowadays bringing in mass surveillance and militarization of police and shit, and we're supposed to be free countries?

Sorry if it seems like an abrupt change of topic, but seriously. This is what they fought for and our so-called leaders nowadays are disgracing their honor with how goddamn totalitarian we've let ourselves become.

I'm right with you on this one. Soldiers live through shit that puts the average person's idea of Hell to shame. Then back at home we just piss away that sacrifice.

The way shit's going nowadays, we'll end up like Venezuela and maybe once we're starving to death and fighting for scraps because no food's in the grocery stores and we were too stupid to learn how to grow our own food, then maybe we'd show some gratitude for what our forefathers fought for.

Maybe then, once that living hell was done and over with, IF we'd survive it, maybe something better would come out of it now that we got humbled big time and learned our lesson. Learn not to be a bunch of entitled pricks, that we don't got the rights to anything... we gotta earn and fight for what we got. Shit ain't free until you do it yourself.