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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1185 on: July 25, 2014, 03:08:53 pm »
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1186 on: July 25, 2014, 03:12:56 pm »
WW2 is sweet, just wish we had more tactical stuff on this side of the pond, but the displays and living history is pretty brilliant when done right

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1187 on: July 25, 2014, 03:49:00 pm »
Lplg?

Yep.

WW2 is sweet, just wish we had more tactical stuff on this side of the pond, but the displays and living history is pretty brilliant when done right

True, but for a period so close to today, Displays and such are already a great thing. Gotta show people what they looked like.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1188 on: July 25, 2014, 04:37:47 pm »
True true, shame our Western front displays tend to look like an amateur version of a bridge too far, so so so many British paras

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1189 on: July 25, 2014, 05:41:06 pm »
The closer you get to the modern period, the more interessed people are. It's something I noticed talking with my friends that generally don't like History.
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1190 on: July 25, 2014, 05:52:47 pm »
Sadly true.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1191 on: July 25, 2014, 06:07:39 pm »
Very true
I have a personal rule when it comes to reenacting. And several of my group have the same ethos. If there's still veterans alive then you don't touch the period. Sadly for all the good WW2 groups out there there's always at least 2 who do the war a disservice. If I were a veteran from WW2 I'd be pretty disgusted at seeing a bunch of fat men pretending to be airborne etc. WW1 is probably the closest back I'd go, but only just as the last veterans died a couple of years ago.
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1192 on: July 25, 2014, 07:38:40 pm »
The closer you get to the modern period, the more interessed people are. It's something I noticed talking with my friends that generally don't like History.


True but there's a limit. Ww2 is considered last line of interest. Beyond that is too controversional to reenact.

The more current you reenact. More negative response you get. Because war is bad and you should feel bad.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1193 on: July 25, 2014, 07:42:38 pm »
I was actually talking about history in general, not just reenacting.

But Yeah, I get your point.
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1194 on: July 25, 2014, 08:48:53 pm »
Very true
I have a personal rule when it comes to reenacting. And several of my group have the same ethos. If there's still veterans alive then you don't touch the period. Sadly for all the good WW2 groups out there there's always at least 2 who do the war a disservice. If I were a veteran from WW2 I'd be pretty disgusted at seeing a bunch of fat men pretending to be airborne etc. WW1 is probably the closest back I'd go, but only just as the last veterans died a couple of years ago.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1195 on: July 25, 2014, 08:58:34 pm »
Even though I personally would never reenactment anything Cold War related and find these Vietnam Reenactors a bitt odd...looking at the comments of this video made me angry and sick.

Apparantly we are all immature kids that like to run around in uniforms and play soldier all day.
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1196 on: July 25, 2014, 09:21:58 pm »
Something about that whole scene just rubs me the wrong way, and it's not just the narrator's nasally monotone voice.

Part of it's the fact that they've just gone straight for the special forces dickwaving rather than regular Army or Marines.
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1197 on: July 25, 2014, 09:27:27 pm »
And they take themselves way too seriously for what they're worth. At certain points it looked like the CO guy was going to legitimately physically harm the reporter when he asked stupid questions or acted out of line. Also it was kind of funny that they all sort of seemed really uncomfortable with the Camera around, like they were ashamed of what they were doing. Oh well, I guess it's difficult to reenact Vietnam and maintain a clear conscience.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1198 on: July 25, 2014, 09:34:21 pm »
Very true
I have a personal rule when it comes to reenacting. And several of my group have the same ethos. If there's still veterans alive then you don't touch the period. Sadly for all the good WW2 groups out there there's always at least 2 who do the war a disservice. If I were a veteran from WW2 I'd be pretty disgusted at seeing a bunch of fat men pretending to be airborne etc. WW1 is probably the closest back I'd go, but only just as the last veterans died a couple of years ago.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1199 on: July 25, 2014, 10:19:12 pm »
To be fair, we have the great privilege of being visited by a Soviet veteran who lives in England. He was very appreciative of the accuracy of our impression and gave us one or two LH pointers, and overall seemed enthusiastic about us doing Soviets, especially so far from Russia. I've noticed that it's never the veterans who are offended, but others who think they speak for them.