As many of you know, today is the anniversary of D-Day. The Colonel has prepared a short message for the occasion.
Today is the anniversary of the Day of Days.
Sixty-three years ago today, the world stood still in anticipation of the outcome as to whether totalitarian fascism or democracy, slavery or freedom, would rule the world. On the 6th of June, 1944, thousands of American, British, Canadian and other Allied Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen launched the greatest land, air and sea invasion that had ever occurred before in the history of mankind.
In June 1944, the coast of France was bristling with forts, gun emplacements, entrenchments, barbed wire, minefields and beach obstacles. A fanatical German Army occupied France and swore that any invasion by the Allies would be crushed and pushed into the sea.
The young men of what has been called the “Greatest Generation” answered the call to duty and parachuted from C-47 Aircraft in the dead of night and rushed machine gun swept beaches from landing craft to crack Hitler’s Fortress Europe.
It was a bitter and bloody fight, but after twenty-four hours of intense combat, the Allies secured the beachheads and the initial and most dramatic part of the Battle for Normandy was won. These twenty-four hours decided the fate of the world, for if the invasion had been lost and the Allied forces beaten on the beaches, the likelihood of many more years of terrible conflict would have been assured. In particular, given one or two more years, the chances of Nazi Germany armed with atomic weapons might have been realized. Such a grievous result for the cause of liberty and humanity is too terrible to contemplate.
So, today, on this Day of Days, the sixty-third anniversary of D-Day, please take a moment to reflect on the liberty and freedom that you enjoy and remember those who fought on D-Day. Remember the heroes of a long-ago generation who stood for freedom, faced evil in the eye and never blinked. We owe them our “today” and I, for one, thank them from the bottom of my heart for their selfless service and sacrifice.
Colonel John Antal, US Army (Ret.)
Gearbox Software
The brand new trailer for Brothers in Arms: DS is out! You can check it out at Insidegamer.nl! The game looks really impressive on the DS - be ready to pick up your copy soon!
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I've just received some unfortunate news from the Colonel. His message is as follows:
" It is with great sadness to announce that Lieutenant Colonel Ron Speirs, US Army (Ret.), passed away this past week. As I was told it was unexpected. You may remember that Speirs was portrayed in the HBO Band of Brothers series. Speirs was a platoon leader in D Co, 506th PIR and later commanded E Co during the Battle of the Bulge. He also commanded a rifle company in the Korean War and eventually retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Another member of the Greatest Generation has passed his final muster. May he rest in peace.
CURRAHEE! HOOAH! "
To learn more about Lieutenant Colonel Ron Speirs, please visit his Wikipedia entry .
Gearboxity hasn't even been alive for a whole day, and we're already getting attention all over the internets! We're so excited that people are receiving the site well and want to give a shout-out to some of the places that are helping get the word out. We are really excited about getting new and interesting content out to the community, and the more people see it the better! The awesome people at these places showed us some love with news:
Bluesnews
2404.org
IGN
GamersHell
Shacknews
And apparently everyone loves Simon's blog about his Wii (if you haven't read it, it's hilarious! ) There's talk about it in tons of forums, which is awesome! People at the following places were seen talking about the Wii blog:
GoNintendo
Neogaf.com
Revogamers.net
HLFallout.net
We're even getting a lot of attention from all around the world!
Gry-Online.pl
Igromania.ru
Plaza.fi
GameKult.com
Thanks to everyone out there, and stay tuned - we'll be bringing you more news, articles, and blogs about the culture and community of Gearbox!
In this article, TeamXbox lists Gearbox as a "studio that Microsoft should buy... before EA does." Nice tip-of-the hat! It's good to see us getting that kind of notice out there. We do value our independence, though :)
We prefer they take the extra time to deliver a game that lives up to the legacy the Brothers in Arms series has already established.
