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Originally Posted by dougiebarder
No I haven't served. But if I had, I know I wouldn't be happy to see a bunch of posers running around and showing off and pretending to be real soldiers.
I don't think any of the re-enactors I've seen show real soldiers in a good light.
If you want to dress up and make yourselves the centre of attention-choose another subject. Reading a British army site ( WWW.arrse.com) the general consensus seems to be that any real ex solders doing it should know better!
I know that I'm massively outnumbered in my opinions, but quiet frankly, I don't care. The general excuse used by re-enactors is that when they meet the old guys who they are pretending to be, they say it's fine. I've seen a few of these incredibly modest and brave men as well, and I think they are just very polite-yeah I know-unlike me, but re-enactors really annoy me.
Please feel free to delete this ASAP. |
Matt,
I don't think your last missive should be deleted, it reflects your opinion, which you think is defensible, tho' one can debate whether or not AARSE is an authority on this issue - they tend to spend more time slamming those who do serve (Walts, etc... in your service support, RAF and Cadet Force).
We need open discourse like this to allow others to decide their way forward with regard to re-enacting. Who knows, it may inspire those who do re-enact (myself included) to improve their "poserability".
I have just a few questions for you: What are you doing to improve the situation? Are you just venting for the sake of venting?