Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners #15, 2 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:

We had church services outside by the river today . The weather was perfect. I discovered I don't sing well acapella. In former years all the churches in the community got together, but some churches aren't showing now. That is sad. Maybe, they have some objections to the afternoon park event. But, if that is the case, they could just leave before it starts. The local military history geeks and gun geeks put on a show. In period costume using period weapons. Why do some people try to politicize everything. If kids knew what a battlefield really looked, sounded, smelled and felt like they wouldn't romanticize war and we wouldn't have so many wars. History would become a visceral thing when a child knew you can feel the vibration of a cannon firing down to your bones. To know that battle is usually a smoky confusion, the air filled with the acrid smell of cordite making your eyes water. I think that is needed to counter act the way TV and movies gloss things over. In today's reenactment they showed a young man lose it and try to run away. He was shot by his commanding officer. That kind of stuff really happened. They showed a field doctor risking his life to treat both his own soldiers and an enemy soldier. That really happened too and the children who were watching saw and applauded him. The story that is portrayed isn't a reenactment of what happened here 149 years ago. Those events would be impossible to stage. That is a story of how 16 people (A few disabled veterans, old men and boys for the most part.) defeated a band of 44 mercenaries saving the town. The people in the reenactment just try to capture the flavor of what the Civil War was like. I can't see anything wrong with that.

Ok I'm done ranting and I'll step down from my soap box lol.

Photo #1: The Gray won this year's battle reenactment. That seems to happen a lot. lol.

Photo #2: But, the Blue and the Gray always take their bows together in the end.