06-25-2005, 04:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2005, 04:30 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
I have imagined 'W.W.P.D.' would have been my understated fallback plan, should the idea of painting (in camo undertone, of course) the Autobot emblem on the glacis plate of the tank been rejected by Company or the like.
Things would have turned out far differently if I had enlisted. I just don't know if for better or worse.
And tanks were called 'tanks' only after they'd been shipped over from England into France during WWI. The initial idea behind the vehicles were that they were 'land ships'â armoured gunboats that sailed over the mud instead of the water. Leave it to the nautically-minded Brits who invented them to see them that way. ;)
From then on out, I can no longer see tanks as 'vehicles', but land-bound boats instead. It's got a gun turret, a deck, a hull, and a commander.
Things would have turned out far differently if I had enlisted. I just don't know if for better or worse.
And tanks were called 'tanks' only after they'd been shipped over from England into France during WWI. The initial idea behind the vehicles were that they were 'land ships'â armoured gunboats that sailed over the mud instead of the water. Leave it to the nautically-minded Brits who invented them to see them that way. ;)
From then on out, I can no longer see tanks as 'vehicles', but land-bound boats instead. It's got a gun turret, a deck, a hull, and a commander.
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