Today is the 20th anniversary of Gundam SEED in the United States, since it was twenty years today that the anime series aired on the block Toonami (a part of Cartoon Network) in a heavily edited format, removing shots of extreme violence, blood, and nudity, removing all cursing ("damn", "hell", "sh*t", etc.), cutting down on the usage of the words "kill", "die", and "death", and even turning handguns into something the community calls "disco guns". I might live in Canada (where we didn't get the anime until later that year, and I will say something about that later on), but I still thought it would be nice to say something and acknowledge that the anime first came to North America this day twenty years ago.