Battletard wrote:
Usd, I recommend On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett, for you. I bet you'd like it.
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth is a good novel in the same vein but more rigorously written.
Other good books about war: Livy's
War Against Hannibal and Tuchmann's
Guns of August. The former is a highly readable story about incredible courage and tenacity against overwhelming odds; the latter is a very dense, dramatic but historically unimpeachable account of the first month of the Great War.
Battletard wrote:
Just as it's important to revere the triumphs of our society, it's equally important to document the injustices so they will not be repeated.
It's more than that - I believe that people cannot learn the difference between right and wrong unless they experience both. Sheltering kids is self-defeating. The difference between that and violent media is establishing that wrong is wrong.
I believe that it is the lack of relevance of of American institution, including and perhaps especially education, to
actual reality, that drives the racism and profanity in gaming communities (and arguably the popularity of gaming itself).
