America's youth and war

[Church]

Well yesterday and today in World History class we watched a documentary about WWII in the Pacific, called Price of Peace btw very moving, anyways there was a veteran that was their for the first island raiding talking, he was telling a story of about a 17 year old marine pinned down in the beach by fire but the fire stopped and he ran for better cover, but while running he was shot in the head by a sniper, the man telling the story was crying etc. but behind me I hear a snicker and a kid say "Headshot".

So my point is, where in America's history did people think war is funny? How messed up do you have to be to make fun of someone dieing for their nation? Discuss

[Perseus]

I agree with you 100%.
I hate how some people are just too stupid to comprehend that a real person died in a documentary and that it affected people.
I also will say people are losing interest in history and that drives me crazy.

[Sage]

I agree with you 100%.
I hate how some people are just too stupid

As if it's their own fault. You can't blame the poor twat when the majority of things the average teenager knows about war comes from tea-bagging eight year olds in China over a game of Counterstrike.

[theOperaGhost]

This is where video games influence kids...Nearly everyone plays games like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, etc...By saying this, I'm not making these kids more violent, I disagree with that, but I'm saying it makes them less sensitive to war and such.

[XxTheBlackDeathxX]

I Love History, Like World War One, And World War Two, Call Of Duty Got Me More Into History, I Swear That On My SAT Score History Was Proficient, While Math, English, Scenice, Ect. Was Below Basic To Far Below Basic! I Don't Find War To Be Funny, I Plan To Go To The Army Or Too The Air Force Once I Turn 18ish. What That Kid Said It's Not Right, That Brave Soilder Risked His Life To Make The World A Better Place, A World Free From Fascist/Nazis, I Wished He Would Have Experince The Pain And Suffering The Solider Did During The World Wars! In World War I The Soilder Had To Experince The Trenches, Dealing With The Fact That At Any Moment, The Enemy Could Attack, Dealing With The Trench Foot, Poor Sanitaction, Worried About Keeping There Heads Down From Sniper, Worried About Crossing No-Mans Land! In World War II, D-Day, Omaha Beach, The American Soilder Would Of Haved Be Straned In The Beaches If They Didn't Break Through The German Defences, 2,374 Brave American Men Died That Day And I Don't Find That Funny!!!!

[Perseus]

I would like to make a comment to just to throw this out here.
Well, the other week in my GA Studies class(GA history) and we were learning about WWII and we saw a powerpoint on the Holocaust and before it started a kid asked, "Is it okay if I laugh?" That is the most insensitive thing to say about the Holocaust and even WWII. That was the most fucking stupid moment I've ever experienced with someone. Fucking morons there are now-adays.. People thinking it's funny that people were burned and gased to death and dug their own graves and were shot and etc...

[Whisper]

There can be a beauty in war besides the United States is good at war its turned into your specialty the new spartans

so fuck it

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WARNING!!!! racial humor

[Oblivion]

Some kids can't deal with the stress and emotion involved with war and death, so they relate it to every day life, and try to laugh it off. There isn't anything wrong or weird about the kid, he just inappropriately disposed of his feelings, since everyone else was dealing with their real emotions, while he decided to change his emotion to a better one.

[Church]

He wasn't trying to say it to lighten the mood, he thought it was funny, you could hear it in his tone

[XxTheBlackDeathxX]

Some Poeple, Dissapoint Me Sometimes.

[Oblivion]

He wasn't trying to say it to lighten the mood, he thought it was funny, you could hear it in his tone

I'm not saying he did.
He couldn't handle the emotional stress of watching a war movie, and listening to this guy talk about a young man who was shot in the head, so he tried to make a joke, and genuinely entertain himself, so he could feel better and not have to deal with the emotion.

[Skeln]

I don't know Nick. If you ask me, that kid was an ass. I hate it when kids are like that, they are insensative and think everything is funny!

I remember there being a kid in my middle school, a kid who had lucemia. Well, his father did a whole documentary about lucemia and his son in school during lunch, so everyone knew what he had to go through. Then, a few weeks later, we got an anouncement saying that he had died in the hospital that morning. Now this anouncement was literally 5 minutes from the end of school, just so you know. Then one girl broke into tears because he was her best friend in elementary school. Well school ended, and one guy asked why she was crying. I told him that the principal mad just anounced that Josh had died, and his only responce was a calm, I don't care kind of toned, "Oh, I forgot."

If you ask me, that was the stupidest and wrongest thing to say. The principal had just anounced it 5 minutes ago, and you forget?! I swear I wanted to kick his ass so badly, because he said it right in front of the girl who was crying and you could tell that was like stapping her in the heart with a knife just hearing what he said.