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Post by causes2b1 on Aug 10, 2007 15:16:31 GMT -6
You and me both brother. I actually did tell a Federal Major to do just that at Franklin in '04, but I added a few other terms referring to his promiscuity with people's mothers. It has almost taken on the status of legend in these parts.
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Post by homer on Aug 10, 2007 15:32:55 GMT -6
You might be a major in this fake army this weekend buddy... but monday you go back to your shine box...
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Aug 20, 2007 11:46:05 GMT -6
Fear is another thing that might be missing from our kit. just a thought,,, Fear is one thing that us reenactors have a problem recreating. And its the hardest, since we are only shooting blanks at each other and there is hardly any real risk to our lives. I have tryed to loose my self in the moment, and inturn, actually feal fear.... pretty sweet! Has anyone else tryed this or any thought on fear in battle, befor battle, etc... Back to things like this.... bumpitty bump bump
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Post by boozie on Aug 20, 2007 12:47:46 GMT -6
ANNYYYWAYYS>>> Fear is another thing that might be missing from our kit. just a thought,,, Fear is one thing that us reenactors have a problem recreating. And its the hardest, since we are only shooting blanks at each other and there is hardly any real risk to our lives. I have tryed to loose my self in the moment, and inturn, actually feal fear.... pretty sweet! Has anyone else tryed this or any thought on fear in battle, befor battle, etc... Not to be a stick in the mud, but is that something you really want to feel. You ex-service guys, can you really bring yourself to that level after really living it? I don't think I can, nor do I really want to. I'm in a diffrent line of work, but I know what it's like to think you are going to die, or that one of my men might not make it home. I'm not trying to talk tough or be a big jerk. I've been in fear and know what it's like to do a job under those pressures. I also know what it's like to lead by example and to push those feelings back. Just like in anything, if you let the fear overtake you there is a pretty good chance not many will walk away from a dangerous situation. I know that this is what most of these men went through, a true test of their nerve, but they had to try and put it aside to survive. Of course standing in the middle of an field with lead flying, that would be hard to suppress. I just don't care to try and recreate those feelings. Although I can always tell when we would be getting our butts kicked and that if it were real alot of us would be laid out.
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Aug 20, 2007 12:55:22 GMT -6
"Hey Tim! {spit} We're gettin' er asses kicked!"
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Post by boozie on Aug 20, 2007 13:00:12 GMT -6
"Hey Tim! {spit} We're gettin' er asses kicked!" Something like that buddy!! ;D
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Post by Preston Todd on Aug 20, 2007 13:29:23 GMT -6
I just think that everyone should act faster, move faster and think faster during actions. I often look around and see guys lost in their motions of loading and firing as if there was no consequence to the situation they were in. I mean, alot of these events are without spectators, so we're only doing it to simulate for ourselves........might as well put some passion into it. I often read of heavy actions involving thunderous firing, yelling, cursing, screams, men massed into large gangs through the smoke, each man trying to wound as many men as are in their path, confusion, sometimes insanity....... nope, never quite have experienced any of that at a reenactment. Alot of that cannot be simulated, except the firpir.
Oh and there should definately be more casualties, more prisoners and actual plans for "wounded". Some events have dealt with these issues with amazing results, I just wish it could be a commonality for EBUFU events.
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Post by charlesheath on Aug 20, 2007 13:54:41 GMT -6
The folks who have shrouded themselves with the mantle of "History Heavy" often look down their noses at those of us who primarily enjoy our wing of the hobby for the period rush it often gives us. Think for a moment the chain of events that followed some stray private lifting half a pie at Fort Donelson, and all that came with it.
Capt. Buffalo Woodburn's thou shalt not steal speech was classic.
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Post by boozie on Aug 20, 2007 14:10:04 GMT -6
I just think that everyone should act faster, move faster and think faster during actions. I often look around and see guys lost in their motions of loading and firing as if there was no consequence to the situation they were in. I mean, alot of these events are without spectators, so we're only doing it to simulate for ourselves........might as well put some passion into it. I often read of heavy actions involving thunderous firing, yelling, cursing, screams, men massed into large gangs through the smoke, each man trying to wound as many men as are in their path, confusion, sometimes insanity....... nope, never quite have experienced any of that at a reenactment. Alot of that cannot be simulated, except the firpir. Oh and there should definately be more casualties, more prisoners and actual plans for "wounded". Some events have dealt with these issues with amazing results, I just wish it could be a commonality for EBUFU events. Now there is a statement I can relate too. Your on the money there Preston, way to many fellows act like they are in a Chuck Norris flick. Walking around like a movie hero in the face of an M60. Taking cover and moving fast would have been a soldier using his common sense at places like the Hornets Nest, Chickamauga, Wilderness, etc. That is something that is easy to recreate. The prisoner thing at BGR made it seem real. Not just the taking of prisoners, but also needing men to guard them, search them and too communicate with them.
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Post by charlesheath on Aug 22, 2007 15:47:29 GMT -6
Just when we thought the prisoner thing was getting old.....a whole new generation wakes up to the joys of bondage.....wait, wrong forum....
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Post by homer on Aug 23, 2007 8:00:19 GMT -6
When I'm a billionaire. I want to re-make a camp douglas out in the cornfields west of chicago. And all you gents can lock yourseves up, in whatever BDSM fetish games you like, then I'll bring in a minstrel show to play while I individually kick your asses just like Angel Eyes when he was a prison camp sergeant in Good the bad and the ugly. It will be 1 part preservation, 2 parts Abu Garab.
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Aug 23, 2007 8:02:19 GMT -6
hahaha ;D.... Charles, Walt and I laughed forever at that! He's been hanging around here lately.
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Post by homer on Aug 23, 2007 8:13:15 GMT -6
Did I go too far?
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Aug 23, 2007 8:24:53 GMT -6
just a tad man.... I don't like secesh at all myself... But I played one in the documentary on Douglas....ugh, how dirty, I can feel the Karma wheel coming around to kick me in the ass...
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Post by homer on Aug 23, 2007 13:17:44 GMT -6
maybe you can be angel eyes and I'll be the man with no name just a tad man.... I don't like secesh at all myself... But I played one in the documentary on Douglas....ugh, how dirty, I can feel the Karma wheel coming around to kick me in the ass...
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