reinactors
Mike,
I must agree with your statement.
My father fought the Japanese for three years in Burma. He did not have anything polite to say about what he went through.
Here in Canada, one must remember that Canadian troops were exectued by the SS in the battles after D Day.
On Remembrance Day, our school invites an army vet, a navy vet and an air force vet to school to talk to the kids.
The air force fellow was shoot down and ended up in Auschwitz. But he won't tell the kids about that point of his life.
The army vet will talk about anything but combat.
Yet reenactors say veterans have tears in theirs eyes when the veterans see them all dressed up.
Maybe they do, but I doubt it is for combat reasons. More likely a memory of what they, the veterans looked like when they were 18-19 years old.
On another website, I once replied to a post like this post by saying "Who would like to be the Canadian in Hong Kong 1941? Who would like to be the Jap?"
To me the proper weapons, gear and uniforms that would be found on any particular mv are legitimate. This includes any vehicle from any army.
But fighting in a mock battle for eight hours, then going out for a beer and "reminiscing" about the "fight" hardly seems like remembering what veterans really went through.
We have ex-army guys in our mv club.
Their take is simple: if you want to find out what it is like in combat, sign up an serve your country.
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