What would you inscribe.

[Flipmo]

Dogtags weren't a special gift to make you special when you joined the army. Starting cadets don't even get them right away. You only receive them when you know you're going out to war or battle. They would use them as Identification. On them your family name then given name was inscribed with your platoon. So when you die from getting your head blown off, they'd know who you were, then they can send it to the victim's mommy or Daddy saying he was a great soldier, we knew he died because of this tag.

Didn't you see in 'Saving Private Ryan' when they were going through the bag filled with hundreds of them and making jokes? That's what you're recognized as, a piece of metal in a shitty black bag.

All soldiers get a real medal for their tour of duty or just their training in a camp that shows recognition that they did something for their nation once their duty is done.
If you see a soldier come home with a dogtag, he keeps wearing it because it shows the world he was able to come back home alive in one piece.

Both my gramparents got dogtags only once when war started, they threw that shit away after the war.

 

[Diaz]

Dogtags weren't a special gift to make you special when you joined the army. Starting cadets don't even get them right away. You only receive them when you know you're going out to war or battle. They would use them as Identification. On them your family name then given name was inscribed with your platoon. So when you die from getting your head blown off, they'd know who you were, then they can send it to the victim's mommy or Daddy saying he was a great soldier, we knew he died because of this tag.

Didn't you see in 'Saving Private Ryan' when they were going through the bag filled with hundreds of them and making jokes? That's what you're recognized as, a piece of metal in a shitty black bag.

All soldiers get a real medal for their tour of duty or just their training in a camp that shows recognition that they did something for their nation once their duty is done.
If you see a soldier come home with a dogtag, he keeps wearing it because it shows the world he was able to come back home alive in one piece.

Both my gramparents got dogtags only once when war started, they threw that shit away after the war.

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

 

[haunted]

THUG LIFE.

you stole my answer

 

[Steph]

i would put something like "Stand tall and stay strong", "life is short so live it large" or just my name (Stephanie)

 

[akae47]

I'm Rick James, bitch!

 

[Vaudeville]

well someone had better words for my point of view. :thumb:

 

[Lord Tyranus]

I would get 'Goodfella'

 

[Bender]

Dog tags: Woof

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

Dogtags weren't a special gift to make you special when you joined the army.

Never said they were.

Starting cadets don't even get them right away. You only receive them when you know you're going out to war or battle. They would use them as Identification. On them your family name then given name was inscribed with your platoon. So when you die from getting your head blown off, they'd know who you were, then they can send it to the victim's mommy or Daddy saying he was a great soldier, we knew he died because of this tag.

Like I didn't know this...

Didn't you see in 'Saving Private Ryan' when they were going through the bag filled with hundreds of them and making jokes? That's what you're recognized as, a piece of metal in a shitty black bag

Hahahahahahaha!! Ypu just picked yourself one of the shittiest historical event charged movie possible! Here's a tip: Don't back up your point of view with a source which is widely regarded by historians as cringeworthy....

All soldiers get a real medal for their tour of duty or just their training in a camp that shows recognition that they did something for their nation once their duty is done.

All soldiers don't get a 'real medal'.

How does their training 'show recognition'? You mean they've gained skills? To make a parallel with Hip Hop, you might have the skills - that doesn't gurantee recognition.

If you see a soldier come home with a dogtag, he keeps wearing it because it shows the world he was able to come back home alive in one piece.

This ain't a fact. There are many reasons a soldier will continue to keep hold of/wear dog tags. One is to show he 'made it', another is that he wants to show that he stepped up to the plate for his nation. Yet another, & one often mentioned, is in rememberance of their fallen comrades & , in some cases, they are actually in possession of a fellow soldier's dog tags & keep them in tribute to the dead (although only with the dead soldier's family's permission I presume)

Both my gramparents got dogtags only once when war started, they threw that shit away after the war.

Props to them for fighting. So they threw theirs away? This act doesn't prove nor appear to mean anything in the grand scheme of things....

 

[not really ken]

What you call a nightmare, is what I call a dream!

When the grass is cut, the snakes are revealed!

Live in the shadows, die in the light!

As soft as flowers, as sharp as swords!

Every soul shall taste death!

How very close is my soul with thee!

 

[Julius_Anderson]

Wild Dudes Rule & Goodbye Forever

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

'ken is a smartass'


Just playing...

 

[Flipmo]

Hahahahahahaha!! Ypu just picked yourself one of the shittiest historical event charged movie possible! Here's a tip: Don't back up your point of view with a source which is widely regarded by historians as cringeworthy....

I know it's a horrible example, but that did happen. If they found dogtags, but not bodies. They would be placed in a bag until they were found and if not, they were presumed KIA.

But to each their own on the significance of dogtags. To me, they are nothing but ID so having one now with ID won't hurt anything. If I walked around with the iron cross, then I'd understand. Anyways, always wanted to join the army anyways.

 

[Vaudeville]

I know it's a horrible example, but that did happen. If they found dogtags, but not bodies. They would be placed in a bag until they were found and if not, they were presumed KIA.

But to each their own on the significance of dogtags. To me, they are nothing but ID so having one now with ID won't hurt anything. If I walked around with the iron cross, then I'd understand. Anyways, always wanted to join the army anyways.

exactly dog tags ar ejust ID i think some people just watch too many movies with people idolizing dog tags, they may make you remember something but they are still nothing but items for IDing

 

[akae47]

Live by the gun die by the gun

nah, too gangsta for me, I'd probably choose something like "Konichi-wa Bitches!"

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

exactly dog tags ar ejust ID i think some people just watch too many movies with people idolizing dog tags, they may make you remember something but they are still nothing but items for IDing

I hope that 'movies' comment wasn't directed at me because everythign I have said has been rooted in reality.

They are 'nothing' but ID to you.....to others they have a whole different significance.

All I'm asking you to do is respect that & know that, in part, it is disrespectful to wear something you ain't earned.

 

[Vaudeville]

^^ sorry but you are wrong you don't have to "earn" the ability to wear tags just like you don't need to earn the ability to wear camo clothing, or a cross, and yes i think you take movies a bit too seriously.

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

A Michael Jackson quote. Don't care which. Yeah, I know...I am crazy about The King.

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

i'd write "Ghost"

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

sorry but you are wrong you don't have to "earn" the ability to wear tags just like you don't need to earn the ability to wear camo clothing, or a cross, and yes i think you take movies a bit too seriously.

Have you completely bypassed everything I've said?

My whole point was that before dog tags became a fashion accessory they did have to be earned & thus had meaning to them. Now they are belittled.

Why do you insist on bringing movies into this? I never mentioned movies once in proving my point & used no movies as a source for what I'm saying so I ask you, what the fuck does movies have to do with anything?