@THthefirst || Vgmeszaros, we can't change what happened there. The dead are dead. Who are you to make moral demands on their behalf? We owe our debts to them, not you. ... I can tell you why this reenactment is cool: because so many people have gone to so much effort to get it right, remembering the men who fought there. When you read what the soldiers wrote at the time, you see them asking over and over again that they not be forgotten. What you're seeing is real respect for the actual dead.
My great grandad pte James Healy he was in the Lancshire fusiliers and was never seen or heard of again, after going over the top on the morning of the 1st July 1916
In two minds about re-enactors, too many of them at Arnhem. At least visitors to these sites have a similar mindset that is to commemorate, pay homage and thank our lucky stars that we do not have to do the same. I'll be at Beaumont Hamel late June early July this year. A first cousin twice removed and also what would have been my great-aunt's brother-in law fell at Arras in 1917 and my wife's great-grandfather was killed in the French Army in April 1916 at Verdun.
This is so cool. Besides the spectators and cameras, i actually felt like I was watching something out of 1916
vgmeszaros 5 months ago
@vgmeszaros Cool? Yeah, lots of frightened young men going to their deaths, dead forever at 17, 18, 19, just young lads. Really cool.
Is your command of the English language so limited that you cannot think of another word?
Tragic? Poignant?
THthefirst 4 months ago
@THthefirst No they aren't, Its a re-enactment.
vgmeszaros 4 months ago
@vgmeszaros You are the one saying you actually felt like you were watching something out of 1916, not me, you idiot.
The point still stands and you have failed to give a straight answer - why it is "cool" to watch a recreation of men going to their deaths?
THthefirst 4 months ago
@THthefirst What about that? i came here to see a recreation of history
vgmeszaros 4 months ago
@THthefirst || Vgmeszaros, we can't change what happened there. The dead are dead. Who are you to make moral demands on their behalf? We owe our debts to them, not you. ... I can tell you why this reenactment is cool: because so many people have gone to so much effort to get it right, remembering the men who fought there. When you read what the soldiers wrote at the time, you see them asking over and over again that they not be forgotten. What you're seeing is real respect for the actual dead.
tnielsenhayden 3 months ago
My great grandad pte James Healy he was in the Lancshire fusiliers and was never seen or heard of again, after going over the top on the morning of the 1st July 1916
god bless him.Rip
roytheboy65 6 months ago
In two minds about re-enactors, too many of them at Arnhem. At least visitors to these sites have a similar mindset that is to commemorate, pay homage and thank our lucky stars that we do not have to do the same. I'll be at Beaumont Hamel late June early July this year. A first cousin twice removed and also what would have been my great-aunt's brother-in law fell at Arras in 1917 and my wife's great-grandfather was killed in the French Army in April 1916 at Verdun.
ThePhantomMajor 10 months ago