"The final buzzer has sounded and Operation Supply Drop’s quest to honor veterans on Veterans Day (November 11th) with an entire month of absurdly large video game care packages sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has ended!"- Shanghai Six
A lot of.... stuff went down in the video game world this year... and maybe too much attention was paid to a lot of it.
Its the time of year where we can all change that. Here are a few ways that people can give the joy of video gaming this holiday season to those who can use it.
After a sudden departure from Operation Supply Drop, Stephen Machuga is attempting to realign with OSD's original goals by starting a second charity to bring games to veterans: Stack-Up.
And with 22 United States veterans committing suicide every day, Operation Supply Drop’s work with vets — helping them to cope with civilian life and form self-supporting communities — is quickly becoming its most important role.
That's nice, but I prefer prevention.
Like not attacking countries that didn't do anything to us. In addition, not drone bombing the 22 countries or so we drone bomb regularly.
Because yes, even the video game pilots, are killing themselves.
Sadly our brave young men and women sign up to serve this country, but end up serving Wall Street, the Military-Industrial complex, and the British Empire.
They should be required to tell you that before you sign up.
You may prefer prevention, but that doesn't help the veterans who come back from war and need our assistance getting back into society, care for wounds, etc. Vote for those who oppose conflict, but help those who fought. You can do both.
Thats why I always defend Americans, a lot of you are actually very smart and decent people, but your government gives you guys a bad rep. I always say it's the government not the people.
