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Do you think we are "glorifing" war?

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 6, 2004 10:06 PM
Hey all,

good subject. i think this needs to be addressed from time to time.

i speak for no one else and this is my opinion:

i tend to build models and dioramas where the crews are at rest, just like Bill. if i want to depict action, i build a diorama or model that strikes a ballance between action and respect. i'm not comfortable with modeling dead or dying soldier on either side of the conflict. i'm not condeming anyone who does, to each their own. i DO NOT belive in revisonist history at all, and that really isn't an issue here. i just choose to model subjects that don't depict dead soldiers, maybe moments before, but not in the act.

best regards,

joe

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:53 PM
Depends. Things like band of brothers and saving pvt ryan show what war really is, but old john wayne movies make war look like paradise (at least to me). I model military models to let us not forget that it happend once. But like I said it depends. If you make a dio of a soldier thats routed and mentally messed up over his dead comrades, I don't think that glorifying war, but if you make a dio of liberators coming through the streets with wine bottles and roses, then it does make war look different. Not to say that we shouldn't model liberation dios, or anything like that, because that was part of war-liberation. But parades with roses and rainbow war scenes like that rarely happened, so modeling the happy times of war is almost like modeling a house geting hit by lightening, it rarely happens. I model to have fun with it, but I don't go out of my way to make war look glorified, just the way it was.
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Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:53 PM
As the others have already cited, no, I don't think so.

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Posted by kaleu on Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:52 PM
I don't feel that I am glorifying war. I believe that by building military models, I am helping to keep history alive and to pay tribute to all of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to keep this country free. What truly saddens me is to meet people who have no idea of how this country evolved or why we need to have tanks, ships, aircraft etc. IMO ignorance of why we have gone to war is worse than somebody who glorifies war.
Erik "Don't fruit the beer." Newest model buys: More than I care to think about. It's time for a support group.
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Posted by lizardqing on Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:51 PM
Personally I do not look at what I build as glorifing war any more than old war photos do. For me models are like a 3-D representation of what a photo is and is another way to keep the history that has gotten the world to where it is today alive and in the memories hopfully of all that see them.
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Posted by fightnjoe on Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:43 PM
much of the military equipment i model is in tribute to people suviving and kia. there are no winners in war only survivors and the only way to avoid war is to keep the memories fresh in our minds of just how horrific it can be. you have a good idea, show the figures at rest and in activities that are non violent. but to avoid the reality of war is to forget why we have had two wars to end all wars and many others that didnt even get classified as wars. many have died for freedoms large and small, as for me i choose to pay tribute to them in my own small way. i hope this helps in your quest for the proper answer for your son.

joe

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Do you think we are "glorifing" war?
Posted by crossracer on Sunday, June 6, 2004 9:36 PM
My son the other day asked about this, are we forgetting that war is awfull? I am a current Air Force member who was in Kuwait in Desert Storm in 91. I've seen broken bodies and destroyed vechicals and lives. I am also a full time firefighter and know just what a plane crash can do to a body.
During the last year when we went to war with Iraq i couldn't even look at a military model. I instead concentrated on model railroad construction.
All of my models feature soliders at rest, playing cards, eating, the 98% of what normally takes up a soliders life. I look at peoples pieces of battle scenes and feel, i don't know, like perhaps my son may be right in those cases.
All in all i am back to doing military models again, and feel that it is mearly history in minuture that i am creating.
Anyway, i've babbled on long enough, what are your thoughts on the subject. Perhaps i am off base, still i love creating models.
Bill
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