tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post3114347918023136048..comments2024-03-28T15:45:27.890-07:00Comments on Gangsters Out Blog: The Great DivideDennis Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-74082408278405366812011-07-30T12:38:30.528-07:002011-07-30T12:38:30.528-07:00trailrunner78: "You will find very few vetera...trailrunner78: "You will find very few veterans doing this dress up re-enactment shit."<br /><br />No doubt, says it all, eh...?<br /><br />Agent K:<br /><br />"If some people want to do it to honour and remember the fallen then it can’t be a bad thing. Especially if they’re trying to remember the loss on both sides and pull the country together."<br /><br />That's right; Agent K, you just put this re-enactments business in another perspective.<br /><br />It's fair to do this, if one is just re-doing a bit of your family's & neighborhood's history, with the understanding, that you are showing what the soldiers in the fields would've looked like...<br /><br />And then, it's just that Americans are different people than us, so best to just leave 'em to it and wish them well.freddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874780016491360565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-33425706888608367782011-07-26T08:22:25.785-07:002011-07-26T08:22:25.785-07:00I was referring to a civilian perspective. The one...I was referring to a civilian perspective. The ones who elect governments that send troops to war for sometimes noble sometimes questionable motives. From a civilian perspective it has become like a video game watching people get bombed on TV. In many cases ground troops don’t even have to engage because it’s all expensive missiles and jets bombing the enemy including their civilians.<br /><br />You are correct in that whether someone dies from a bullet or mine that death is the same death and the same sacrifice if they died from a sword and spear. The combat is different but the end result is the same. I certainly don’t mean that modern death has less value than it did in older forms of warfare.<br /><br />I personally don’t do the civil war reenactments. I don’t have a concern with it. If some people want to do it to honour and remember the fallen then it can’t be a bad thing. Especially if they’re trying to remember the loss on both sides and pull the country together.Dennis Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-25478999971117928902011-07-26T05:58:33.401-07:002011-07-26T05:58:33.401-07:00[Deep Sigh]
No, it hasn't. You can only say t...[Deep Sigh]<br /><br />No, it hasn't. You can only say this because you and all other civilians have never been there. No loss? No sacrifice? For you maybe. Did you really think this through before you wrote it? I submit that you did not. It's video for CIVILIANS. Not for the people with boots on the ground. The fact that you don't share the experience does not make it other than what it is, and trust me, it's no video game. It's very real.<br /><br />You will find very few veterans doing this dress up re-enactment shit. You will find NO veterans of actual combat there, the idea is laughable, same as you find very few veterans in these "militia's" down south. It's largely guys who want to play dress-up at something they'd like to think they could have done for real, except they're not that kind of person. They just wish they were.<br /><br />Is it different than the days of sword and shield? Absolutely. Back then you were safe unless your enemy stood before you at arms reach. Now you are never safe.<br /><br />Ask the family and friends of every Canadian and American serviceman killed or wounded in the last 10 years if modernization has removed the personal element of loss and sacrifice. Come on dude, you're better than this....trailrunner78https://www.blogger.com/profile/06694102447472594355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-15369623452260887052011-07-25T22:11:02.407-07:002011-07-25T22:11:02.407-07:00Yeah I dunno. Reenacting D-day would be an emotion...Yeah I dunno. Reenacting D-day would be an emotional time as well. I do think the former battles like the civil war or even older times of hand to hand combat with sword and shield like Sparta or the Braveheart battles were a different time with a different type of man. Modernization has removed the personal element of the loss and sacrifice associated with war. Today it’s become a video game where we sit back and watch people getting bombed on TV. Maybe that’s why they do it. So we don’t become so war hungry it become like watching a video game.Dennis Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-56109502775009581472011-07-25T19:35:40.260-07:002011-07-25T19:35:40.260-07:00This is a good opportunity, for one to comment on ...This is a good opportunity, for one to comment on re-enactments of battles, any battle, in this case the savage Civil War fights. I study military history and have done so for 40 years. Civil War historian Bruce Catton is the guy to read.<br /><br />Re-enactments seem just crazy to me. These guys WANT to be on a Civil War battlefield?? Why do they engage in this weird dress-up game? To be pretend tough guys? Are we supposed to think they are braver men than the guy sitting @ home watching the game? Do you know why they do it, Agent K? I do not.<br /><br />The Civil War battlefields were horrible; beyond any description a non-combatant can imagine. The Minie balls fired just blasted huge ragged bone and flesh wounds, far, far worse than any modern bullet. There was no proper medical treatment for wounds and no anasthetic.<br /><br />Do the guys there want to re-enact THAT? Cannons firing grapeshot point-blank into packed soldiers is romantic & nostalgic? The whole idea of trying desperately hard, at any personal expense, to re-create the most terrifying & agonizing time in any human's life is (to me) sick & disgusting. <br /><br />These pathetic men are just nuts. In the end, all one can feel is profound sorrow that anyone would be so deeply foolish.freddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874780016491360565noreply@blogger.com