Not Done Yet

One last thing I want to mention before I finally sign off for the night:  Yesterday was of course June 6th, making it the 69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.  While it may be a silly way to commemorate the invasion and pay tribute to those brave Allied service men who lost everything that fateful day, I always play the D-Day mission from Call of Duty 2 on the anniversary, something I believe that I may have mentioned this time last year.

Regardless, I have upheld the tradition yet again, completing the mission with only one death.  Good for me, right?

If you've never seen the mission played, here's a video of its first portion.

Hatfields & McCoys & Brothers in Arms

     I had DVRed Hatfields & McCoys when it was on last week.  If you haven't heard of it, climb out from underneath your rock.  The History Channel had been promoting it fairly heavily, and I was glad to see something on what used to be my favorite channel that actually gave its namesake some meaning.  For the uninitiated, the story revolves around the feud that took place between the titular Hatfield ad McCoy families in the 1880s in the states of Kentucky and West Virginia and how it nearly brought the U.S. into another Civil War.  I just finished watching the final part of the three part miniseries about fifteen minutes ago, and I must say it was phenomenal.
 

Kevin Costner (left) plays Anderson Hatfield while Bill Paxton (the other left) plays Randoph McCoy, the leaders of the two families.  Both portray their characters convincingly.

A Follow Up & More!

     After thinking about all of the time I wasted the last week posting about what kind of content would be found on this blog, it occurred to me that the last two posts were not entirely accurate.  While they did a good job of describing my interests and gave me several topics to discuss here, obviously, there is going to be more to discuss than what those few topics covered.  I'll be sure to comment on anything interesting that I do or come across, be it in reality or online (I am a fairly active denizen of the internet, after all).  After a few posts, I'm sure my readership (which I still believe to be at 1) will begin to understand.  Expect the unexpected.

A map point out where the guns were located in relation to Pointe du Hoc.

Captain's Log Part III: Will It Blend?

     I really want to get done with this introduction so I can start posting pictures of cats like the rest of the internet.

Now that's more like it.

     While I am surely not the first person to notice this, it has recently occurred to me that all of my interests tend to "blend" into each other in one manner or another.  Let's run through an example, shall we?

     When I was in the 7th grade, I saw the film Saving Private Ryan for the first time.  This affected my life in a profound way and today I consider it to be my favorite movie.  The opening scene on Omaha Beach was the most intense scene I had ever seen in a movie, and arguably to this day still holds that regard.  The rest of the movie was a harrowing tale of men just trying to do their job as part of a larger picture, with most of them never making it home.  For those who are completely oblivious, this movie takes place in France following the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 (which is, coincidentally, the day on which I am typing this).  That movie profoundly opened my eyes to World War II and these unreal experiences that very real people lived through.