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An anti-war activist that posts the names of dead soldiers in the chat during America's Army games, I wish I had thought of it myself. I am an on-line gamer and although I have no passion for America's Army (yes I've played it), I do like other first person shooters (HL2 + episode(s), Quake 4, etc). I don't get a great deal of time to play but that's beside the point. What better place to list the names of America's fallen than in the Army's internet recruitment tool? It's difficult for me to imagine anyone joining the Armed forces after playing it, it's the same as any other on-line team game thus the complaints of the day in, day out following of gamers who are apparently annoyed when reality encroaches upon recreational "killing/fragging". There is a war going on and ironically there is the slimmest chance that this war could potentially lead to the drafting of so many enthusiastic virtual killers depending on where the political climate is headed. I like to think that that's nearly impossible.. Any public outcry against the war is warranted, inconvenient or not. This war has been created from lies from the beginning, why shouldn't the truth be thus conjugal?
