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003 Shots Fired
I realized something the other day. My birthday came and went without my noticing. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but the jump in time makes something like birthdays a bit odd to say the least. I should be seventy according to the calender. For those who are from further back in time than I, that dissonance only gets worse.
Incidentally, my birth coincides with something from my world known as the Normandy landings. A few years after the fall of France during the second World War, the Allies concocted a plan to free the nation from the hold of the Nazis. This incident has become known as D-Day, from the military term to indicate on what day an attack will happen. It is one of the most well known examples to the point where many Americans are probably not aware of other D-Days unless they are familiar with the way the military works.
D-Day was not a sweeping victory. The Allies lost more men than the Germans, but it was the boost that the Allies needed to start to reclaim land lost in the war. Everything about the mission had been carefully planned. The specific date was even chosen because it was a full moon and tides would be high. Had the order been given to delay the mission, the world might have become a very different place.
[After that history lesson, he fires off a message locked to Demyx and Schludig.]
I believe the three of us should work together on something. Call it leaving our mark on this region. Are you two interested?
Incidentally, my birth coincides with something from my world known as the Normandy landings. A few years after the fall of France during the second World War, the Allies concocted a plan to free the nation from the hold of the Nazis. This incident has become known as D-Day, from the military term to indicate on what day an attack will happen. It is one of the most well known examples to the point where many Americans are probably not aware of other D-Days unless they are familiar with the way the military works.
D-Day was not a sweeping victory. The Allies lost more men than the Germans, but it was the boost that the Allies needed to start to reclaim land lost in the war. Everything about the mission had been carefully planned. The specific date was even chosen because it was a full moon and tides would be high. Had the order been given to delay the mission, the world might have become a very different place.
[After that history lesson, he fires off a message locked to Demyx and Schludig.]
I believe the three of us should work together on something. Call it leaving our mark on this region. Are you two interested?
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That said, however, this war of yours...it's interesting to me. Do you have speculation regarding how the world would have changed, exactly?
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Had the Allies not successfully started to push back, the Nazis would have probably successfully taken over the entire continent. France-- the country where Normandy is located, was under Nazi control at the time, being a neighboring country to Germany. In the years before and during the war, twenty six countries fell and more would have fallen had there not been a push back.
The Nazis being unable to conquer Russia helped on the Eastern front, but the West was not fairing so well until America decided to join into the war after sitting out for much of it.
Had the Allies not won, most of Europe would be speaking German within a generation, tens of millions more people would have been killed and the majority of a religion would have been wiped off the face of the Earth.
Currently, the world has many new problems that have cropped up, but I'd take the world I know any day over a world where a megalomaniac controls half the world.
It's worth noting that the war ended within a year after the Normandy landing.
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[SOMETHING JUST CLICKED he kind of got a really unfortunate history lesson a while ago hang on let him verify]
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He was, actually.
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И прости внезапное переключение, но ... русский, правильно?
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Таким образом, языки действительно взаимно понятными. Я не ожидал, что.
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There might not be direct comparisons, but they're there just the same, even if some of them are incredibly subtle.
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And I do speak German normally, when this place isn't "assisting" me. Or, again, it's some equivalent. In both German and Russian, there are phrases I have that you don't, and the other way around. But it's close enough.
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It's not a perfect equivalent but it's enough to prove that there is some sort of connection, even if it's very far removed from the original source. What the original source is is not something either of us can know.
If we could speak privately, I'm interested in knowing about the extent of weapon development in your country.
[He's curious, okay.]