Thoughts on Nationals

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Posted by James Jones at 04/09/2001 11:40 AM EST


Engineer on team #267, The Demolition Squad, from North Broward & St Andrews and Motorola.


In Reply to: Thoughts on Nationals
Posted by Matt Leese on 04/08/2001 8:33 PM EST:



I was dissappointed to hear Woodie's comments disparaging historical battle reenactments. While not a participant myself I have attended some and I think they give you a better understanding of the tremendous courage and self sacrifice shown by those who have gone before us. I think they also help illustrate how terrible violence and war can be. When you realize all those people that just fell down on the field represent a real person who several hundred years ago fell down because they got some part of their body blown off and lay there and bled to death it is quite sobering. Perhaps some reenactments are different from the ones I have seen but I don't think they glorify violence at all. Indeed, I think they can be a good reality check as compared to the idiotic, surreal violence that is glorified in movies and video games.

Woodie gets it about alot of things but I don't think he understands what historical reenactments are all about. I can only think about the old saying that people who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. We have had relative peace for a generation now. That generation should not be allowed to forget what war is really about or just what people in the past have been willing to sacrifice to provide the peace we now enjoy.