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Title: Dad's Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son's Grave
Post by: DuVeL on August 25, 2009, 07:31:30 AM
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/08/thumb160x_COD-funeral.jpg)
 
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who's to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty (http://kotaku.com/tag/call-of-duty/) left on the grave of a fallen soldier.
In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend. Pvt. Richard Hunt would have been 22 today, Hundreds came to pay their respects.
His father Phillip, enjoyed playing Call of Duty: World at War (http://kotaku.com/tag/call-of-duty%7c-world-at-war/) with his son. He left a copy of the game at his grave (along with a wreath and many other memorials). It bore the note: "Happy Birthday 'Hunty'. Play you again one day. Dad."
 
Original link here; LINK (http://kotaku.com/5343724/dads-tribute-call-of-duty-on-soldier-sons-grave)
Title: Dad's Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son's Grave
Post by: TE_owner on August 25, 2009, 11:35:47 AM
That's so touching :crying::crying::crying:.
Title: Dad's Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son's Grave
Post by: Luminance on August 25, 2009, 05:04:03 PM
Wonder how long it will take for someone steals it, people steal the strangest things in holland lately.

As for the touching part, it really seems like a nice gesture to his lost son :crying: