In Tuesdays lecture I could not help but be filled with many emotions. I have a number of friends and friend's relatives who are currently serving the country and both of my Grandfathers have been in the service. As we were talking about the virtual citizen soldier I was thinking, why do people feel the need to be a "virtual citizen soldier?" There are amazing and brave men and women who fight day in and day out for our country, so why would we mimic that? Soldiers are heroes and I do not think that playing some war video game could possibly give any "real" indication to being a solder. There are so many aspects to being in the military that are left out of the picture. Soldiers go through weeks of intense training, they are hundreds of thousands of miles away from their family, they come home with post traumatic stress disorder, they revolve their life around protecting America and it's people and some of those people want to consider themselves a "virtual citizen solder" because they are really good at sitting in front of a television playing Call of Duty? I think that is horrible! What "insight" does shooting some virtual people give to the real depths of war? War should not be used as a tool of entertainment. The media is referring to the bombs as a "tremendous light show..." Are they being serious. People are losing their lives and we are going to sit here is "shock and awe" that those are bombs taking the life of human beings? There is a clip in the movie, Black Hawk Down, that I will include the link to and I think that what the man says sums it up perfectly... Americans will never understand what it is like to be fighting for our country. So why do we try to make it entertaining?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsyVRpW4xNk
This clip takes place after an attack that lasted hours longer than expected and many many many American soldiers lost their lives.
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