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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1490582" data-attributes="member: 12744">Wow.  I wish I shared your optimism on this SH, but I do very much appreciate the sentiment.  I don't know that I'd ever get to the level of Contact's or Wulf's stories (or other board favorites of mine like P-Cat, Sepulchrave, OldDrewId, etc), or that I'd want to try, but I plan to keep having fun with it and see how it goes.  You really should pick up When Trumpets Fade.  Not one of the best WWII movies, but tells a very little-known story about one of the bloodiest and horrendous areas Americans fought in during WWII, Hurtgen forest.  The stupidity, futility, and downright arrogance of military command led to the senseless slaughter of thousands of americans there, and the movie at least paints a decent picture of a soldiers frustration and will to survive against what he knows are unsurmountable odds.   Yeah, I loved Big Red One, and even though it has technical issues it is still a good war flick, also enhanced by the fact that is supposedly the director's true story of experience during WWII.  Hey, no prob, I'm just glad I have a character that someone is beginning to despise <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> .   That is one thing he most definitely was a master of, even if he had to make a few things up to get there... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   The documentary that is the last episode on the DVD set, We Stand Alone Together, which is getting play on the History channel now is the most moving of the series.  For the first time, they put the names of the guys interviewed below their faces to show you who they actually are, unlike they did on all the interview lead-ins where they left it off, and to hear these guys get choked up and shed a tear for someone who passed 50+ years ago is quite moving.  It really affected me to watch the entire series, then all of a sudden realize that *that* old guy who did the lead in on a few episodes *is* Shifty Powers, and *that* old guy with a prosthetic leg *is* Bill Guarnere, and you actually can feel the charisma and nobility exuded by Winters during the interviews that his men must have felt back then. When the one old soldier struggles to tell his story about how he recently had a conversation with his grandson that went something like this, it still makes me get all goose-pimply and choked-up: Grandson:  "Grampa, were you a hero in the war?"Grampa:    "No, son, I wasnt.  But I served in a company of heroes".  Aw shucks man, I do appreciate the comments.  I know that I have a lot of stuff I could get better at in the story, but I really enjoy writing it nonetheless.   I haven't yet (havent been to Louisiana in a long time), but we're planning a trip to N'awlins for this summer and that is near the top of my list of places to go. Thanks again (to everyone) for stopping by.  "Your training in mini obsession will be long and arduous""I'm not afraid!""oh, you will be... you *will* be... heh heh heh"   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />   Glad to see ya again, barsoomie, I appreciate the nice words.  Just wait until next update, for the first time they get a chance to truly 'stretch their legs' and pull out the full gamut of powers.  Everybody really pretty much used everything they had in the coming conflict.  Oh, and BTW, anyone who has not checked out barsoomcore's SH's needs to get off their lazy @ss and go do so, he's one of my personal favorites on these boards.  That samurai short story you did for the Ceramic DM made me laugh for quite some time dude.  Again, you guys never fail to come by and say something that makes me want to run out an write another 50 pages... thanks, I appreciate it, though I do think ya'll are putting much more praise onto it that it's worth.  That still doesnt restrain the increased swelling in my Big Giant Head; I'm going to have borrow some of OldDrewId's interns to help me carry it around on my shoulders if ya'll keep it up. Update coming sometime this week, if I can only remember the general sequence of events well enough to put it into words.</blockquote>

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