Brian Wood Memorial Fund Established
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Good God that's terrible. I truly hope everything works out for his wife and child. Rest in Peace Mr. Wood.
I'd never really heard of Company of Heroes until now, but I offer my condolences to his friends and family. He will be missed.
It's unfortunate the idiocy of others cost a family their husband and father. I shall donate once I have sorted out my credit card.
That's actually really impressive. Split second responses in the face of danger or death usually result in a person trying to save their own lives, most people would swerve themselves away from the danger and try to put the bulk of the impact on the other side of the car where the passenger sits. It's interesting to note that you see many more males in wheelchairs due to an incident than you do females and for most relationships it's the male who drives the car. He must have really cared for his wife and kid to have been able to do that. I hope that the baby is okay.Andy Chalk said:
I wasn't on Brian's team, but working at Relic I've heard him speak, and you would see him around and all that. It was enough to get an idea of his character. I just want to say thanks to everyone for supporting Brian's family -- even a dollar helps. He was a stand up guy, and all of you are amazing people for chipping in here.
To be fair that is because people have a skewed view of what a Hero was.Cyanin said:
He was a hero up until the moment he died and then he became a victim.
At no point in there is he any less of an amazing person who didn't deserve to die. Since I'm sure someone is going to take my comments and make it seem like I'm trying to say something negative about him, which I am not.
I just feel that calling people heroes in death tends to be a bad road to follow. It was what they did in life that made them a great hero, their death was what made them a victim. You can however easily say that they are a hero in spirit, that is to say they lived a heroes life.
I guess what I'm getting at is that there are many thousands of people that are Heroes and haven't died. Any person that braves danger to save the life of someone else for one. Firefighters certainly come to mind.
I just think that anyone who dies should be looked upon as a victim, not looked DOWN upon but looked upon. The loss of a life is always a loss unaccepted in my book, until this even is one of pure choice it is an unacceptable event entirely.
But I digress.
It is truly sad that he died, I hope his family does alright and I hope that the man/woman who hit him did so because of uncontrollable circumstances and not because of the many reasons people get into car accidents in my part of California (namely eating while driving, cellphones while driving, no turn signal, and not allowing for safe distance between them and the car in front of them).
Head-on from a Chevy Blazer, eh? Made me think of this:
"An SUV gives the illusion of safety because while it protects its own driver, it is more likely to cause a fatality in the other vehicle in the accident. These gas-guzzling, environmentally unfriendly, selfish vehicles need to be banned." - Gregg Easterbrook
"An SUV gives the illusion of safety because while it protects its own driver, it is more likely to cause a fatality in the other vehicle in the accident. These gas-guzzling, environmentally unfriendly, selfish vehicles need to be banned." - Gregg Easterbrook
CoH is the best RTTactics game ever! >.< There goes my dream of seeing a CoH for the Pacific/Eastern Front ._.
