I'm married to a veteran who is 100% disabled. 1.) Not recognizing veterans ON Veteran's Day is disgusting. 2.) Locking posts of people who do recognize veterans ON Veteran's Day is GROSS. This has nothing to do with emblems or piece of candy. It's the very carefully calculated disrespect for our veterans. We uninstalled the game here. I hope everyone else does the same.

I just think this whole thing of needing to be "recognized" no matter what Bungie or any company does or doesn't support is blown out of proportion. It brings in a lot of unnecessary conversations. There is nothing wrong with supporting whatever anyone does support, but trying to push what you support is not the way to go at all. You mentioned something that is annoying with most companies and this is what most are about these days... Trying to "look good" That is more of the issue than what is or isn't supported by whatever company.

Spoken like a true veteran 🍻

Thank you for speaking out. The truth ALWAYS points to itself. And, YES, Bungie has been shutting down Veteran posts. And, YES, they are interested in promoting what gets them more sales and is popular, and never what is right… Best of luck, and blessings…

This applies to the US only, in Europe we celebrate armistice day... Aka the day ww1 ended. We celebrate the men who died fighting for their countries, the men who charged over the trenches into gunfire and the men who ran through no man's land to get to the enemy trenches. Those men died believing they'd helped make a better tomorrow, a world that is at peace and their countries and families being safe.

[quote] Although Churchill was referring particularly to painting and sculpture, it is not hard to extend his views to the Arts in general: The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. The country possesses in the Royal Academy an institution of wealth and power for the purpose of encouraging the arts of painting and sculpture…. The Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain], who spoke with so much feeling and thought on this subject, has reminded us of the old saying that it is by art man gets nearest to the angels and farthest from the animals. Indeed it is a pregnant thought. Here you have a man with a brush and palette. With a dozen blobs of pigment he makes a certain pattern on one or two square yards of canvas, and something is created which carries its shining message of inspiration not only to all who are living with him on the world, but across hundreds of years to generations unborn. It lights the path and links the thought of one generation with another, and in the realm of price holds its own in intrinsic value with an ingot of gold. Evidently we are in the presence of a mystery which strikes down to the deepest foundations of human genius and of human glory. Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.[/quote] Bungie’s expression of its values and its vision in it’s preferred form and format is (ostensibly) why veterans of (ostensibly) freedom loving countries are asked to place their lives on the line. Or at least that’s what we’d like to think and tell ourselves if the harsher truth weren’t that we more often sacrifice our own and engage in conflict for lesser reasons. Regardless - it’s distasteful for politically motivated hacks to show up in any forum disparaging people who have been targeted and bullied for how they were born and wrap themselves in a thin veneer of patriotism to justify their ugliness - in a pathetic “whataboutist” display. If we’re going to focus on the sacrifices of American veterans - I would think that we might stop for maybe a second and wonder whether a life sacrificed for “freedom” includes Bungie’s freedom to make the art they want, exercise the speech they want, how they want. Too much to ask from this crowd I guess. But no - instead we get churlish, insecure, political baiting from folks that can’t resist the urge to change the topic and bait the audience into an argument literally nobody was interested in. Pro trans message on US Veterans Day? The outrage. Black folks having the nerve to speak up about being profiled and abused by the police? Let’s invent a rhetorical argument that intentionally diminishes the subject being discussed (the abuse of black people) and replace it with “All lives matter” and run around with blue line flags on our pickup trucks - as if there was a zero sum choice. What about this? What about that? Blah, blah, blah. Some of us matured past the age of 14, learned to listen to others respectfully, and not be threatened by people and ideas that challenged our own. What if US veterans didn’t sacrifice themselves for this premise - that art, expression, and commerce could be made freely? What if they died for rank nationalism and a static society? Their sacrifice would truly be tragic.

Why would this get blocked? Also who cares if people want to thank us for our service? You may not want to be thanked for it and thats fine but veterans day is not all about you. Veterans day is about being thankful to all veterans that have risked their life and time to defending the country so everyone can have the life that they want. I served my time, sure it feels weird to be thanked for my time served but its also an honor to know we provide hope and comfort to other civilians.

Great post. I respect a good, well thought out, and honest expression of their soul. Mostly everyone liked what you did here. As did I. My only personal comment, if you'll allow me, is that how on earth did we get here? And why is it so important to talk about this? What is going on? What brought this? Why is it so important now?

I came home with most of my marbles. Spending some time in VA hospitals on the east coast was enough to tell me how lucky i really was.

And that's a true veteran. Not seeking glory.