11-13-2016, 09:19 PM
(11-12-2016, 04:45 PM)playwrite Wrote: Hey, maybe they'll open Gettysburg to being a shooting range where you can reenact Picket's charge and shoot the Union Lines with AR if not machine guns and real live ammo. Ye-haw! Then it will dawn on everyone that the South would have won if only for the want of ARs... and maybe they should do a re-match.
For the kids, you know.
I do remember sitting under the tree at the Angle, looking out over the open fields, and watching a gaggle of elementary school students carrying various flags but no weapons reenact the charge. I was almost tempted to lay down behind the wall and start shouting 'bang, bang!'.
The adult re enactors do do the charge most every year, but not in the park. One of the nearby farmers rents them a similar enough field.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.