Everyone knows video games do nothing but corrupt our nation's youth, turning them into mindless killing machines that would just as soon curb stomp you as look at you. Well, apparently, 28 year old Paxton Galvanek missed the memo, as he recently applied his America's Army video game skills to saving another's life.
This troubled young man has been a long time player of America's Army, where he was trained as a virtual field medic, not a rifleman or sniper. Obviously, the signs were all there, but no one was paying attention. On a regular November morning, Galvanek was driving along with his family down I-40 in North Carolina when they witness an SUV lose control and flip close to five times. Galvanek pulled over to the side of the road and had his wife call 911 while he checked the occupants of the now smoking SUV. And that's when Galvanek's story turned tragic.
Unlike any respectable videogamer, who would spend those crucial first moments searching the victims for money, ammo, power-ups, or questioning them for crucial mission information, Galvanek rescued the two injured men by removing them from the smoking vehicle and pulling them to the far side of the road.
Now, Galvanek had the injured men just where he wanted them. The driver of the car had even lost two fingers, leaving him virtually incapable of defending himself. But, yet again, Galvanek's story took another dark turn.
Instead of claiming their lives as his own, he saw to their wounds, using a towel to apply pressure to the driver's hand wounds. A few minutes later, an Army officer in plain clothes arrived on the scene and took over treatment of the victims. The ordeal was over.
In the aftermath, many are left asking the questions, "Why?" or "How can a loving God let something like this happen?" When asked directly why he had resorted to such actions, Galvanek had only video games to blame. But perhaps there is nothing more chilling that to hear the motives in the perpetrator's own words.
In a letter he wrote to the makers of the America's Army videogame, Galvanek claims, "I have received no prior medical training and can honestly say that because of the training and presentations within America's Army, I was able to help and possibly save the injured men. As I look back on the events of that day, the training that I received in the America's Army video game keeps coming to mind.”
TheFeed understands how this must be hard for many of you to understand. It must be difficult to fathom how people like this can go unnoticed by society for so long, especially with all the evident signs.
America, we must not forget. America, we must endure.
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By the way, do you really want to know the truth if videogames do in fact "corrupt" minds???? I have a theory on it but I still need more answers. TRUST ME, this question is as complex as having "cell phones" in your brain........(HAAAAA, got you there, huh?) But I do believe that we will find some answers in the near future.
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Keep gaming!
-Paxton Galvanek
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That was the whole reason I couldn't play America's Army, I've been through real basic training and I don't want to play a damn video game about it just to get to the fun part of the game. It's kinda like playing as roxas in Kingdom Hearts 2. Pointless
Jack Thompson just needs to realize when he's wrong and move on. If violent video games actually caused real world violence, or if there was any legitimate evidence of it, the video game industry wouldn't be nearly successful as it has been.
The fact is, Jack T. is really stuck up with a telephone pole stuck up his butt. Also, why isn't he attacking bad parenting, public schools, broken down neighborhoods, etc...?I'll tell you why, because he's busy attacking the virtually cheap babysitter.
Anyways, i couldn't give an honest answer of if i think video games are bad, good, or neutral. It's ultimately up to the parenting, but even then some kids with morals taught on a regular basis end up getting into trouble too. This story was great though and paxton does deserve a medal