civil war re-enactments...wtf?

i do not understand these people. i was in a hotel in michigan this week visiting relatives and there were about 40 of these people in the hotel. man, you really have to have a lot of time on your hands and not really care how stupid you look. plus, they had their kids all dressed up too...poor bastards.

why would anyone want to re-enact one of the worst times in u.s. history anyway? americans killing americans by the thousands...black people in bondage...you could get the plague or cholera or dissentary and be dead in a few weeks...no toilet paper...no feminine hygine products of any kind...no air conditioning...sign me up for that.

on second thought, maybe i'll wait for the wwII re-enactments...bataan death march, concentration camps, blitzkreigs...bring that on!

I couldn't agree more. I'm a history teacher and still can't fathom the reasoning behind doing these things all the time. I understand making a movie or historical piece, but these are some strange people dressing their kids up.

blue edwards said:

i do not understand these people. i was in a hotel in michigan this week visiting relatives and there were about 40 of these people in the hotel. man, you really have to have a lot of time on your hands and not really care how stupid you look. plus, they had their kids all dressed up too...poor bastards.

why would anyone want to re-enact one of the worst times in u.s. history anyway? americans killing americans by the thousands...black people in bondage...you could get the plague or cholera or dissentary and be dead in a few weeks...no toilet paper...no feminine hygine products of any kind...no air conditioning...sign me up for that.

on second thought, maybe i'll wait for the wwII re-enactments...bataan death march, concentration camps, blitzkreigs...bring that on!

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:lolBIG: Always wondered why they do this myself.

They probably feel the same about people like us who are on this forum 24/7.

Here in New Englad we reenact the Revionlutionary War.


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They take it pretty serious, The Boston Tea Party is a favorite reeactment.


wil.

wmublows said:

They probably feel the same about people like us who are on this forum 24/7.

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they dont know about the internet...they still get their mail in 5 weeks via the pony express.

wilheim said:

Here in New Englad we reenact the Revionlutionary War.

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They take it pretty serious, The Boston Tea Party is a favorite reeactment.


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that makes a little more sense i guess...since we got rid of those arrogant brits for good. well, until 1812 anyway.

Re-enactments are weird, but in some parts of the South they are still fighting the civil war for real. Try having a yankee accent in the confederate states. You're reminded of it constantly. "You're a Yankee, huh?"

What's even more interesting, though, is that in the South, many don't even call it the Civil War....many Southerners, including history teachers, call it the War Between the States. One history teacher taught her class in Knoxville (that included my son) that the proper name of the war was the War of Northern Aggression.

"southerners" mind their own bidness,,& if that wasnt northern aggression,wtf was it?

mrhognuts said:

"southerners" mind their own bidness,,& if that wasnt northern aggression,wtf was it?

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uuuummmm, they wanted to suceed from the union. if that was allowed, we would have at least 2 seperate countries right now.

thats an obviously biased northerner statement.

They're nuts for it here...then again I live in the same state as Gettysburg (one of the WORST NATIONAL PARKS IN THE UNITED STATES).


Anyone who had a future on the South +4000 sorry for your loss. You should've taken the fav.



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mrhognuts said:

thats an obviously biased northerner statement.

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ok, what would the biased southerner view be? a new constitution and black slaves for everyone?

Blue,

go to this thing and get down large on the NORTH. I'm telling you, they are a L-O-C-K!

hbstowe & that pos book caused a lot of confusion,,,,

i tried to pound the union army but it was off the board at every shop.

i tried to tell the guy at the continental breakfast this morning that he should take off the grey wool outfit, put away the confederate flag and move out to california for a while until things cool off...or else face a major beat-down. he just laughed and said "we'll see yankee"...then he stuffed 3 croissants in his burlap pockets and ran out of there.

weird.

unconstitutional,illegal,,,,

mrhognuts said:

unconstitutional,illegal,,,,

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my point is that to re-enact the war seems stupid to me.

blue edwards said:

i tried to pound the union army but it was off the board at every shop.

i tried to tell the guy at the continental breakfast this morning that he should take off the grey wool outfit, put away the confederate flag and move out to california for a while until things cool off...or else face a major beat-down. he just laughed and said "we'll see yankee"...then he stuffed 3 croissants in his burlap pockets and ran out of there.

weird.

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This is some Funny Shit, BLUE......Wish I could have been there to see you jawing with these fools.......G.

OK...Blue, and the rest of you: the reasons these guys do these things one could write several volumes of books covering such, but in short:

1.) Like Dungeons and Dragons these people feel 'safe' knowing and doing things that have little relevance in reality, but they feel empowered by the 'daring' of it all...carrying guns (black powder) or class six weapons, which really is no daring at all, is it?

2.) Community with those of like mind (we apply as well to this one)

3.) Feeling that, unlike the losers playing D&D, you are recreating history for everyone else to see and understand and better grasp (which isn't true..you are just telling yourself that to differentiate yourself from the D&D crowd....you are still losers)

4.) We may all of us struggle to find a place and feeling of belonging in the present but we can all find a place to belong in things that have already happened....I'll play 'this part' and you play 'that part' and this is how the script dictates we proceed, and so we have a place and action though it is a place in a netherworld which doesn't matter...we just can't figure out what to do within the 'real time' game called life that has no script.

5.) Look...there is not one normal human being that doesn't look back to a day and say...I wish I could go back and live that day again as it was great and times were good.....and I would make much better decisions from then on out if I knew what I know now. Well, it's nice that since 1983 the world wasn't obliterated by nuclear war. But the only way you know that wouldn't happen all the way to August of 2005 is that you had to live through it or after it. Those ended up being good times for many, unless you lived in Rwanda. My point is we lived with a small fear (everyone of us) that is gone if you could go back and live through the times again (again the fear would be great and true if you lived in Rwanda.) Or...how about the good ol' days in the America of the 2nd world war...Many I know look to those as the Halcyon days of America. Well...how did the German Jews view those great days or how did the American Black feel about those 'great days.' Hmmmmmm......The good old days weren't that good after all!



So, I leave you with these short subjects that explain why people go 'back' to reproduce that which has already happened. It is safe. You may 'die' in the act and it took no real courage; you know that there is a tomorrow for yourself and the rest. You may 'triumph' in the act and it took no real courage, and you know there is a tomorrow for yourself and the rest. You can pretend to kill and not...you can pretend to die and not....all of which requires some fortitude in reality but doesn't in pretend...... As I said...volumes could be written about these.... I can't go on as I have better awaiting me in the following moments regardless what happened in the past. tulsa