A quote in the recent article, “Gamers eagerly answer the ‘Call’,” floored me. One soldier asked the crowd if they wanted to “play ‘Call of Duty’ for real.” To somehow equate military service with a video game is both callous and disturbing. There’s no mission restart for soldiers killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. Mowing down waves of enemies with one pull of the trigger on an Xbox controller is far different than killing another human being face to face.
At the end of a session of “Call of Duty”, the game is turned off. Unfortunately, real life soldiers are returning from our wars maimed, suffering from PTSD, or lost in an inefficient Veterans Affairs Department.
What message is the military sending here — today “Call of Duty”, tomorrow Kabul?
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November 13, 2009
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