Military Re-enacting.

Are there really people that reenact wars besides the Civil War? I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm genuinely curious.

My ex does, and so does my kid. Norman/Viking era, IIRC.

is this type of activity used to figure out what went wrong, and then travel back in time and use that knowledge to change the course of history?

Yea, to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that the next leap...will be the leap home.

Are there people who seriously re-enact the Vietnam war? That sounds like it could have the potential to dredge up a lot of bad memories for some folks.

I was thinking the same thing.
It just makes no sense to me ... WWII either, really.

Civil War reenactments I can understand, because you can actually go to places like Gettysburg or wherever ... but Vietnam? Not so much.

Yeah, not exactly the most glamorous war to pick. Might as well reenact the first few years of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Or the Bay of Pigs "invasion."

These two posts are hilarious.

Here's what little I know about the WWII re-enactors . The Reading airport has one big weekend each summer when they have several planes from the era fly in for a show . I know one thing you can do is pay for a ride over the airport area in a couple of the planes there , one usually is a B-52 bomber . And there are folks doing the re-enacting thing there too , but I think for the most part it's entertainment based . Music , dancing , stuff like that . I did read something about them having a small area set aside with bombed out looking buildings & I guess they sort of do a war games type of thing there , but I have no idea how they play those out . Maybe like the civil war folks do on the battle field . I haven't actually gone to it as it draws a ton of people & I hate crowds .

uhhh..the B-52 wasn't a WWII plane. Although my dad flew one in vietnam. I'm not sure if that's what you were saying or not. The biggest bomber used in WWII was the B-29 and that was near the end of the war...the B-24 was the workhorse though most of the war for bombers.

I like re-enacting WW3 ,or imaging what the aftermath will be like.....

You should draw it with stick figures.

Seriously! and it's not like there were loads of actual battles. A lot of it was guerrilla warfare, firebombing, and dumping loads of that agent orange bullshit in the jungle.

Yeah , wasn't sure about the plane , as I'm not into it like some folks are . Figured someone would correct it , thanks for not being assholes about it

already did...

maybe they have different planes to ride up there. my father goes to that show in reading and has taken a few rides in a b-17 flying fortress (the one with the bubble turrets). i think its owned by some guy as opposed to the museum.

aaaah man "post apocolyptic" re-renacting sounds awesome

mutants vs the survivors

Can you re-enact something that hasn't happened? Isn't that just acting?

It's like time travel future past tense or something. Totally complicated grammatics.

I haven't been a re-enactor myself, but I know several Civil War guys. They've been to Sharpsburg/Antietam and to Gettysburg.

Here in SC we have several re-enactments of the American Revolution, e.g., Cowpens, Ninety-Six, King's Mountain. Several hundred were involved in The Patriot Mel Gibson movie.

I guess in some way this is akin to Revolutionary or Civil War re-enactors?

I just don't get it. To me, it's like re-enacting a murder, or a rape. Why purposely relive something that is so horrible? Just seems awfully morbid to me. I don't like horror / slasher movies for the same reasons. (II'm probably the only one on the site that doesn't like blood and gore.)
Not trying to diss you re-enactors, to each his own.

You are not alone. I am with you. I hate horror/slasher movies.

"...Oh boy."

i miss that show