http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2008/04/17/on-the-difficulty-of-reenacting/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:15:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2008/04/17/on-the-difficulty-of-reenacting/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Brendan Wolfe Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:11:11 +0000 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/?p=67#comment-24 Thanks for your comment, Danny. It's well put, although I'm not sure I understand the value of crying over a lost battle from a hundred years ago. Sure, acknowledging the horror of war is important, but it hardly prevents us from repeating it. Nor should it, necessarily. And anyway, based on your own comments, I would argue that reenacting doesn't do much to bring home the worst of war. Luckily, we always have the evening news for that. Thanks for your comment, Danny. It’s well put, although I’m not sure I understand the value of crying over a lost battle from a hundred years ago. Sure, acknowledging the horror of war is important, but it hardly prevents us from repeating it. Nor should it, necessarily. And anyway, based on your own comments, I would argue that reenacting doesn’t do much to bring home the worst of war. Luckily, we always have the evening news for that.

]]> http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/2008/04/17/on-the-difficulty-of-reenacting/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Danny Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:56:33 +0000 http://blog.encyclopediavirginia.org/?p=67#comment-23 I have been reenacting for about 8 years now and I can say honestly that we are as far from what it was really like as you can get! I hear the stitch counters talk about there impressions and how close they are to the real thing. You can not stand here today and have a clue what it was like to not eat for days, sleep covered with the blood of the guy you had been friends with all your life all over you cause he took a cannon ball to the cheast just a foot from you or even to have a clue of losing eveyone you know and trust in one battle just to be placed in a company of rank strangers for the rest of your enlistment. That being said we are not out there make a statement just to give a modern world a snap shot of what was as close as we can without really killing each other! I have seen people cry over a lost battle in a war fought a hundered years before they were born. To me that is as real as it gets and that is good it reminds us of why we should not repeat those things. If it hurts you will remember it for the rest of your life. I have been reenacting for about 8 years now and I can say honestly that we are as far from what it was really like as you can get! I hear the stitch counters talk about there impressions and how close they are to the real thing. You can not stand here today and have a clue what it was like to not eat for days, sleep covered with the blood of the guy you had been friends with all your life all over you cause he took a cannon ball to the cheast just a foot from you or even to have a clue of losing eveyone you know and trust in one battle just to be placed in a company of rank strangers for the rest of your enlistment. That being said we are not out there make a statement just to give a modern world a snap shot of what was as close as we can without really killing each other! I have seen people cry over a lost battle in a war fought a hundered years before they were born. To me that is as real as it gets and that is good it reminds us of why we should not repeat those things. If it hurts you will remember it for the rest of your life.

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