I have viewed your website, and and have proclaimed a thought that may be of intrest to your cause. I am the head of a large Xbox Live Clan, known as Clan USMC. www.freewebs.com/clanusmcbiasquad
One of the games we play is ‘Brothers in arms’ with the intention of remembering the 101st Airborne who played a demanding and incredibly important role during D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. We are hoping that ‘Brother in arms’ captures their long and hard fought battles into the fields and towns of France, Holland, Belgium and finally Germany. We hope that our clan will act as a major virtue in remembering and paying tribute to the soldiers of the Second World War, who were truly ‘The greatest generation’ Brothers In Arms captures the team work, sacrifice, duty and honour and the significance of their shared Brotherhood. These are men who at a young age became soldiers, some even not old enough to vote in their country but still had the job of carrying a rifle and killing with it. The realism in this game is far more than hard hitting, it is fascinating, I myself have attended Normandy to Honor veterans of different nations and be with them to share and spread their heartfelt stories of courage, bravery and loss in the face of the enemy. If I could go back sixty or more years from now those men would be no different from the soldiers in Brothers In Arms, young, dedicated to duty and willing to do their part and put their lives down for the men next to them.
I wish to pay tribute to the soldiers that share their emotional and overwhelming experiences with us so that we can learn from them and when in doubt, think about the sacrifices they made and human limitations stretched, and find it within ourselves to gain courage and a positive attitude in any situation.
From this we can learn to become strong as a nation and as a person. In the time of need they stick by one another and save others lives for the cost of their own, they must always be remembered as Heroes and that is what they truly are. These men are so brave that unbelievable to any man or woman, and indescribable to any one who had not been beside them in the line of fire. These are proud men, and for their past and present actions they have more than the right to be. God bless them all.
I have been to Normandy, and Brothers In Arms is virtualy identical to the real thing. The same doors, windows, trees, hedges, roads, paths and walls are all there. It is actualy pssible to use a map of a town like Ste Come du-mont or Carentan and find your way round the game using that, its truly amazing. Brothers In Arms provides, in some cases a trip to Normandy. Standing on the Cathedral in Carentan, looking down upon the town I could see each street was the same as it is in real life.
Last year I took part in being an honor guard for The veterans of Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach, and have shared many emotional times in Normandy.
Clan USMC BIA Squad had made in an objective to up-hold the past and defend its fragile existence against the new and dimissive. Clan USMC wants to express the need for History and the meanings that lay within, this is done through a number of ways, and in some ways by supporting the presentation of History and supporting events all over the world, in some cases, economically, using money won in prizes and tournaments. some of us have taken up reenacting and through this, we has experienced some of the best and emotional days of his life, some within Normandy 2005 where he escorted veterans around the cemetry's and once again made them feel like the heroes they are. A veteran would never leave our sights without a thankyou and good luck. The veterans were some of the very few that saw the in-evident battle that took place between the dying History and the new, the past experiences needed to be kept visible and accesible rather than be lost to a repeating world of no progression. To forget History we could only progress in a state of ignornace rather than a state of clarity and purpose. For History The Clan USMC must protect and deliver, useing many methods.
I proclaim that any Tournament money won will be directly sent to your cause. If prizes are won they will be sold for the donation of not only your dream and goal, but our's aswell. Thankyou for reading my letter, and good luck for the future!
Yours sincerely, Benjamin Bushby (Dog 6 USMC)